The Scottish Mail on Sunday

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up doing the new Oxford Entrance Test when it asked me this: ‘A large study appears to show that older siblings consistent­ly score higher than younger siblings in IQ tests. Why would this be?’ I’ve always assumed that I only got into Oxford by mistake and have suffered serious and chronic imposter syndrome all my life. The last thing I need is for my long-held suspicions of intellectu­al inferiorit­y to receive crushing confirmati­on now.

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