With hundreds of thousands of teenagers preparing to sit their first part A-levels this week, lots of them have been prevented from doing so because of the weather. And they will have to apply for special consideration in the May/June exams, they won’t just get it.

It’s been over a decade since my exams, and I remember the pressure all too clearly, but to be sat at home, worrying about getting in safely, and feeling that I should get in even if it is not safe, would have sent me into a panic. But those sitting at home won’t be faring any better, because they won’t be able to “re-sit” them until the summer, alongside all of their other exams.

I wouldn’t want to be a teenager again for all the tea in China.