The Price of Ignorance...

...is a fifth of the total marks for chemistry paper III. Oh, for want of a better knowledge of burettes and the functions thereof! A lack of the very same is the cause for my want of spirits this miserable afternoon. This is indubitably the worst performance I have had the misfortune to give for any chemistry paper since the very first, back in Form 4. Ah, I cringe at the thought of my chemistry teacher's displeasure... I confess, it is no less than I deserve for such a pitiful error as this. Ah well...stercus accidit...