That’s handsome: good-looking do better in exams

Beauty may be more than skin deep after all. New research suggests that good-looking people do better in exams and thus probably in later life, than the plain or downright ugly.

In the study, better looking students achieved superior results in both oral and written exams — the latter marked anonymously — suggesting that success is not just down to teachers favouring attractive students but to superior natural ability.

That explains my exam results then.