I was in the first intake of the "new" style A-Level system, where 4 or 5 AS-Levels were taken in year one, then 3 A-Levels taken forward to year 2. I dropped

I was in the first intake of the "new" style A-Level system, where 4 or 5 AS-Levels were taken in year one, then 3 A-Levels taken forward to year 2. I dropped CompSci at AS-Level after seeing what a joke it was (took English, Maths and Physics instead), although I had never really done any programming at all. Just HTML. One of the best/worst things about the "new" system (I say new, as it was new when I did it, but it's now a decade old, of course) is that the introduced "Key Skills" classes, where you had to learn literacy, numeracy and IT. Apparently, while English and Maths got me out the first two, CS wasn't good enough to get me out of doing Mail Merges. So I didn't go anyway, and my tutor would be sent nastygrams every so often saying I was failing by not turning up. My tutor's response? "Oh, I put them in the bin."