Dear Mr Examiner

                             Thank you so much for your questions

                               I've read most carefully through 

.                              But there isn't a single one of them

.                               That I know the answer to

                             I've written my name as instructed

                             Put the year , the month and the day

                             But after I'd finished doing that I had nothing further to say

                             so I thought I'd write you a letter 

                             Fairly informally

                             About what I can see from my desk here 

                             and what it's like to be me 

                              Mandy has written ten pages 

                              But it's probably frightful guff 

                              And Angela Smythe is copying

                              The answers off the cuff.

                              Miss Quinlan is marking our homework 

                              The clock keeps ticking away

                               I suppose to anyone outside 

                               It's just another day

                               There'll be mothers going on errands

                               Grandmothers sipping tea

                               Unemployed men doing crosswords

                               or watching ' Crown Court' on TV.

                               The rain has finally stopped here 

                               The sun has started to shine 

                               And in a back garden in Sefton Drive

                               A house wife hangs shirts on a line.

                              A class files past to play tennis

                              The cathedral clock has just pealed

                              A mover chugs backwards and forwards

                              Up on the hokey field

                             Miss Quinlan's just read what I've written

                             Her face is an absolute mask

                             Before she collects the papers in 

                             I've a short of favour to ask.

                             I thought your questions were lovely 

                             I've only myself to blame 

                             But couldn't you give me some marks

                            For writing the date and my name ?