Dear Mary
Your Problems Solved
Q. I am working flat out for a tutoring agency in the run-up to GCSEs. My agency has offered me a weekend residential posting in a stately home which I have always wanted to see inside. I accepted, even though the subject I need to tutor in is chemistry, at which I got a B in GCSE. Should I turn down this social-climbing chance of a lifetime, Mary? Or is there a way around it?
Name and address withheld
A. If it matters to you that much and if you have time then it will be worth the investment of your hiring a tutor yourself to give you a crash course in GCSE chemistry. If your tutor deems you still unfit to proceed then I am afraid you must turn down the posting. Any social advantage gained in the short term would be lost in the long if exam failure were to ensue. You would then be the focus of resentment within the stately walls.
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