Eat and drink wisely on the morning or day of the test. Make sure you don't go into the test hungry. Hunger can interfere with your concentration, and so can the noise of a rumbling stomach. Don't create an unnecessary and unfortunate distraction!

When we are children, we have a sense of freedom and care-free innocence, unaware and unsullied by the stresses and demands of the world, we are happy creatures. Then nature conspires against us, and introduces the most painful, confusing and scary process in the world: growing up.

Peer pressure is something thing that all teens have in common. You can't escape it, try as you might -- it is everywhere. It doesn't matter how popular you are, how well liked you may be or how together you feel, sooner or later you will have to face peer pressure.

What was it my Mum always said, ‘try it, you might just like it’. So why not give it a go. If only I knew where to start. So I just did nothing for a few weeks, still a bit scared by the multitude of blogs, forums, video upload sites. Until one day a good friend of mine got himself a part in The Archers (well done him, I hear you say), he was to play Helen Archer’s new love interest.