"Fix up. It's not me who needs their GCSEs it's you! These words were barked at my year 10 science class by our science teacher and form tutor, Miss T. And deservedly so, because we had just suffered the ignominy of collectively flunking a GCSE mock exam. All 30 of us. Miss T was relatively young, but she was old-school in her approach she had a low threshold for nonsense."
"While I considered this mock an inconsequential test a pre-season friendly, if you will she treated it like an FA Cup semi-final. To put it another way, it was half-time and we were losing badly, so she gave us the hairdryer treatment: a relentless, 15-minute tirade berating us for our lack of aptitude and our attitude. I remember it vividly: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail! she yelled, so disappointed she had resorted to tried-and-tested cliche."
"I was 14 and this was perhaps the last time my hair was dried, literally and figuratively. Despite her best intentions though, we were emotionally immature teenagers, not professional athletes. To keep it frank like Lampard, I was initially affronted by her impassioned rant. It didn't motivate me. Quite the opposite it angered me. I felt that it was an overreaction."
A young, old-school science teacher berated a year 10 class after all thirty students failed a GCSE mock. She responded with a 15-minute hairdryer tirade, invoking clichés like 'Fail to prepare, prepare to fail' and demanding students 'fix up' to secure their future exams. The students reacted as emotionally immature teenagers; some felt anger and viewed the outburst as an overreaction, while others privately agreed that the very worst results warranted stern condemnation. One student earned a D without revision and believed modest effort could improve the final result. With hindsight, some students recognized initial defensiveness as a form of deflection.
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