JB,
I was about to say exactly the same thing. Rikesh asked a question in a well mannered way, and has got good informative replies. Unfortunately, Chris' thread has got a lot more replies and it's because of his awful manner, but that's the way it is.
Chris can learn a lot about how to go about things on here from that thread.
Regarding the 'amazing' GCSE results, I refer you all to this:
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showpos...86&postcount=7