Many year 11 students have recently been sitting GCSE mock exams . It is a stressful time. One teenager, Jess, describes her state of mind. “I was so nervous before the English language exam,” she says. “I did, like, twenty 7/11s.” A “7/11″ is not the latest in teenage [...]
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