High-school hurdles

Usage examples of exams.

I repeated the non-intrusive exams, and came to an immediate conclusion.

The steaming in my head turned out to be mostly due to the flu, and I staggeredfrom bed to exams and back to bed again.

Cal, of course, knew nothing of what had occurredand attributed my silence to weariness or exams or the flu.

The rest of us talked about soccer and exams and the news from the rest of the family.

Klaus used the Quagmire notebooks to study for the comprehensive exams, and everything worked the way it should.

I told your teachers to make these exams extra-challenging, and the pieces of paper that the baby has to staple are very thick.

Indeed, the exams were so boring that the Baudelaire orphans might normally have dozed through the test themselves.

She thought she had done reasonably well on her exams and waited three more days for the scores to be sent to the dorms.

It would have been his last term there even had the Bolsheviks not seized power, but presumably because of the coup, when it was already apparent that the family could not safely remain, he took his school-leaving exams a month before the formal time.

The Bolshevik coup timed itself so that Vladimir could just squeeze in his matriculation exams, and when a second Communist incursion drove the Nabokovs on from the Crimea, the family headed for England, and Vladimir and Sergey straight for Cambridge and Oxford, respectively.

On May 23 he sat his first two exams in Part I of the tripos, translating into French in the morning.

Two days before the exams began Nabokov had warned his mother that if he knew he had failed he would come straight to Berlin on June 1 without waiting out the term, but as they progressed he realized he would pass comfortably enough.

But she was withdrawn from class because of poor health, though she continued to take the Obolensky School exams every spring.

He had hummed it heading into organic chemistry exams, and later on throughout his family practice-boards.

First formal psychological exams and profiles, then AIDS screening, and now, finally, genetic testing.