Advice to revise 7 hours a day for GCSEs over Easter 'unbelievable'
by Sally Weale Education correspondent from on (#3KGRF)
Ex-Harrow head Barnaby Lenon says 100 hours over fortnight ideal for GCSE and A-levels
An expert recommendation that GCSE and A-level students should study for seven hours a day throughout the Easter holidays has been greeted with a variety of scepticism, concern and mild horror by psychologists, teachers and pupils.
Barnaby Lenon, a former headteacher of Harrow, the prestigious independent boarding school that educated the likes of Winston Churchill, Benedict Cumberbatch, the singer James Blunt and the rugby player Billy Vunipola, suggests in a much discussed list of revision tips, a total of 100 hours study over the fortnight long holiday.