noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exam/a test question
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You have to answer twenty exam questions.
exam nerves
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Quite a few of the students suffered from exam nerves.
study for an exam/diploma etc
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I’ve only got three weeks left to study for my exams.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
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Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams .
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Thousands of students are diligently filling out final exams with Number 2 pencils.
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On top of this, I face my final exams at the end of the year.
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This week, final exams or not, she is in no mood to tolerate poor practices.
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Mr Foecke has claimed he scored passes in 13 out of 13 final exam papers.
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Staying up for a week during final exams is nothing compared to months of interrupted sleep with an infant.
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The usual summer crush of final exams was supplanted by the trappings of grief.
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There will, I promise you, be a final exam .
oral
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The navy board was the last in a gauntlet of oral exams .
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Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
physical
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Sedentary men, particularly those over 40, should not start a running program without a physical exam , he said.
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To his embarrassment, he failed the physical exam .
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The task force recommends physical exams every one to three years, essentially duplicating the screenings for the younger group.
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It also offers all marathon and triathlon participants free basic physical exams before the race.
written
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Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam .
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The candidates faced hours of written exams , manoeuvres and then a gruelling road test through Milton Keynes.
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The majority of marks will come from a written exam .
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They attacked the internal assessments, which teachers have normally defended as superior to the traditional written exams .
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The award will be based on continual assessments of skills and competence so staff will not have to sit any written exams .
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The course is assessed by two extended essays, four essays and a written exam .
■ NOUN
bar
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He went to Oxford from secondary school but failed his Bar exams , unlike his father and brother.
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The begin-ning of real trouble was flunking the bar exam and receiving, in turn, a reduced salary from my firm.
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In the service, I met an impressive guy who had just passed the Massachusetts bar exam .
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She graduated and passed bar exams in two states on her first try.
entrance
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Even so, without his father's family connection he wouldn't have scraped through the entrance exam .
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An entrance exam guides students into one of four academic tracks, ranging from highly gifted to remedial.
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He failed a university entrance exam .
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She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam .
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It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam .
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There are juku to help four-year-olds pass entrance exams for elite kindergartens.
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Students often have a good idea of what scores they need on college-\#entrance exams to earn acceptance letters and scholarships.
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There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
fee
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The offer could save schools up to £1,500 a year in exam fees , which currently cost about £15 per entry.
question
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Recently, a friend of mine who's a teacher was looking through files of exam questions stored on a floppy disk.
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Look at Heisenberg, which is part of a real exam question set in June 1992.
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Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.
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We looked at labels and washing powders with more interest and at new washing machines with economy programmes - another exam question .
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It is a bit like asking a number of students an exam question .
result
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She says many things other than exam results make a good school.
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Worshippers come by bus or car to pray to their ancestors, or perhaps for their children's exam results .
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Class composition and exam results are monitored.
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Users tended to be children with low expectations of good exam results and generally low esteem.
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He never really saw the effort, the nervous breakdowns, the tears for poor exam results or exultation over good ones.
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A bottle of vintage champagne was cracked open, and a toast drunk to Virginia's exam results received a few days earlier.
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He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like.
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We will publish test results , exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.
school
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The militants enforced the ban on cheating in school exams , and even that old tradition disappeared.
■ VERB
fail
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He went to Oxford from secondary school but failed his Bar exams , unlike his father and brother.
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I might have failed a physics exam .
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How did you manage to fail all those exams ?
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To his embarrassment, he failed the physical exam .
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He failed a university entrance exam .
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She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam .
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But he said the young man's fears that he would fail his exams were almost certainly unfounded.
pass
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She had to pass her exams .
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She graduated and passed bar exams in two states on her first try.
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What's the point of a head when it can't pass exams ?
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There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
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Reply: It was the day I passed my exam .
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Poor boys from the provinces could rise above the sons of tycoons if only they could pass the Todai entrance exam .
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If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams , there are some pupils who'd never get any education at all.
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The Royal children might even pass a few exams which is more than their expensively educated Mummies and Daddies managed.
sit
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It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam .
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In this case the Project becomes a temporary centre and they sit the exams there.
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The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard.
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She was still at school, and sat her exams when she was four or five months pregnant.
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The award will be based on continual assessments of skills and competence so staff will not have to sit any written exams .
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These opportunities start with the Staff Progression Scheme where all employees are encouraged to sit three levels of exams .
study
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Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam .
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I've been up late every night studying for exams and now I've got puffy eyes.
take
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I had the tutor for a year right until I took my exams .
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And then Clinton takes over the exam , moving it to the oddest of venues.
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He agreed and said he would train me so that I could take the necessary exams .
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Offered promotion, he is told that he will be obliged to take a brief exam .
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This is a set of databases which collect all the pupils' details, from absences to courses taken and exam presentations.
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The impostors allegedly traveled to different testing site to take the exams , showing fake drivers' licenses or military identifications.
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She says that Helen had to take 99 exams to qualify as an astronaut.
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Many students take 10 or more exams to ensure entry to a good school.
write
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Students will have to produce a portfolio of work and successfully complete a written exam to gain a unit qualification.
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Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
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Evening and weekend study, writing reports and taking exams can all prove quite stressful.
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They have to hire most employees from lists of those who have taken written civil service exams .
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Applicants may take a written exam , undergo a preliminary interview, or submit records of their education and experience for evaluation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exam-setter/policy-setter etc
written test/exam
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After passing the written test, Solomon began his driving lessons.
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Applicants may take a written exam, undergo a preliminary interview, or submit records of their education and experience for evaluation.
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Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam.
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Pudwill said only five passed among the 60 in his group that took the written test.
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Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
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The written test success rates are given in the table below.
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The results are from written tests unless otherwise stated.
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Thus, although these pupils generally have difficulty with reading, this does not mean that written tests should be ruled out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a chemistry exam
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Final exams will be just before Christmas.
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He's upstairs, revising for an exam .
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How did you do in your exams?
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In Japan, entrance exams are very important, and many children go to extra classes to prepare for them.
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Students are not allowed to talk during the examination.
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We have a biology exam tomorrow, and I haven't done any work for it yet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At one point, Fred cheated on an exam .
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How did you manage to fail all those exams?
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Proving that I could do it, and do it well, was finally my sole motivation when I began my exams.
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She says many things other than exam results make a good school.
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Study past exam papers, noting the exam format, the choice of questions, and the all-important time limit.
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The exam covered the material they had read; they were allowed to use their notes.
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The task force recommends physical exams every one to three years, essentially duplicating the screenings for the younger group.
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We were then given a simple exam which consisted of crossing out stupid answers in order to leave the least stupid one.