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Zoe Williams and George Francis Lee

Pens at the ready! A gen-Z trainee takes on the Guardian’s ‘scribbler-in-chief’

Francis Lee and Williams holding notebooks and pen looking at camera
George Francis Lee and Zoe Williams at their write-off. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

This week it was reported that students could soon be sitting their end-of-year exams on laptops after pupils complained of hand fatigue, saying their muscles “are not strong enough”.

With Ofqual preparing to launch a public consultation on the introduction of onscreen exams, we decided to conduct a test of our own, pitting the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams, a seasoned hack of the pen-and-paper generation, against George Francis Lee, our gen-Z journalist in training.

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