I had an affinity for design when at school and had got 90+% in previous exams, my Dad was a draftsman when I was young, I liked the clicky pencils.
Choosing GCSE classes for the final two years at Secondary School, I was told that I had to choose French or German (due to the constraints of my class scheduling) rather than be able to do the Design/Tech Drawing GCSE. I chose German, didn’t try, got an E.
Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man.
This still rankles me, aged 41. What could have been…maybe appearing on Grand Designs as the oddly-shaped glasses wearing architect…