The one thing about Patrick that is surely consistent is his honesty. Unlike Ginty, for example, he is scrupulously honest, and this is a theme in Attic Term. It therefore doesn't make any sense of the character to claim that when he says he thinks he is struggling, will probably not pass foreign language A levels, he doesn't mean it, and would actually do fine with some work. He does appear to be working as hard as he reasonably can in Attic Term anyway.
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