As thousands of anxious A-level students await their results this month, a Staffordshire theme park has been criticised for offering free tickets to those who fail.
For those students who get U grades - marks so low they are unclassified - in every subject, Alton Towers is offering free entry for three days, August 18-20.
About four per cent of students who sat their A-level exams this summer are expected to be able to take advantage of the offer. They are invited to scream away their woes with free entry to the theme park if they turn up with their result slip and photo ID.
Marketing manager Mike Lorimer said the offer was open only to "genuine failures".
He said: "Only those students with photo identification and an original exam slip will be allowed in for free. All exams must have been failed comprehensively and we are only interested in exam slips from 2005 - this is for newly qualified failures only."
While I grant that getting a free pass at the local amusment park doesn't make up for completely bombing your exams, this certainly seems to send the wrong message.
Comments