As university students engage in their end of year exams, others find themselves sighing with relief that the days of exams have passed, having recalled the stress of late night revision and the agonizing fear of the unknown.
What is up for stakes is very high; a degree which usually widens career prospects and secures one's future, or a failure which may delay this but, in many cases, can be redeemed one way or another.
But how justified are our sighs of relief after one's exit of the examination theatre? For if we have managed to overcome the exams of the academic world, there is an exam that every one of us is yet to overcome and its date is drawing closer.