Cars, holidays and hard cash: Two thirds of parents bribe kids for good exam results
14th August 2013
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As summer trundles on, almost without realising the dreaded results days for both A-level and GCSE students are imminently upon us. Students will now be restlessly counting down the hours with a sense of trepidation and the familiar buzz of nervous excitement following anxious months of waiting.
However, for many the warm glow of achievement is not what they are most excited for, but rather staggering cash prizes offered by beleaguered parents, in their last ditch attempts to encourage unmotivated adolescents.
As millions of British teenagers wait with baited breath and clammy palms for results, research from VoucherCodes.co.uk has revealed that a startling 67% of parents have resorted to cash bribes to incentivise their children to succeed in exams this year.
The survey questioned 1,000 parents about their views and experience of using incentives to encourage apathetic teens. It emerged that almost a quarter (22%) of parents have promised their offspring a gift in a bid to motivate them to succeed, whilst one in ten maintains that without an enticing cash incentive, their children wouldn’t have tried as hard.
Over a third motivate their children by unabashedly waving the promise of cold-hard cash in front of them. The survey reveals that for intelligent students whose results sheets are littered with A*s, parents shell out a sizeable sum of £35.37 per subject. In addition, C grades averagely land students with the handsome figure of £17.34.

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