JULIET GOSS, aged 17, writes:  I am currently basking in the joy of my newly-found freedom after finishing all of my exams. I’m slowly adjusting to life on the outside, free from a constant niggling stress and guilt for not doing more revision.

Suddenly I have a fresh perspective on life and can see past the giant looming papers of fear.

I’ve baked blueberry muffins.

I’ve tidied my room.

I’ve whiled away hours looking through old photos.

These are the activities which, depending on what type of person you are, you either postpone until after the exams or you happily complete instead of revision.

There are those, I suppose, who manage to get that healthy balance between the two, but they are few and far between.

Looking at my friends who, yet to take their A-level exams, are not in the same luxurious position as I am, I sympathise with their stresses and the varying positions they have adopted in the face of their upcoming exams.

Some have to be coaxed out of their bedrooms to take a break (with the temptation of one of my freshly-baked blueberry muffins), others have found amusing procrastination techniques.

These have included finding and then taking obscure but amusing online quizzes, creating lengthy videos of themselves on Helium Video or composing songs to express their detest of revision. Others pride themselves on not having done any revision but for everyone it seems exam stress hits at some point and it manifests itself in weird and wacky ways.

For all of us our results will, to varying degrees, affect our future plans.

However, amid all this exam angst and tension, I bear in mind the 276 Nigerian girls and all those around the world who are fighting, even risking their lives, to receive an education.

Therefore, however much we complain about them, we are lucky to be taking these (dreaded) exams.