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exam

[ig-zam] / ɪgˈzæm /




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Then, last week, a follow-up exam showed “movement in the small blood clot,” the team said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Liam, 17, says it feels like the exam board are "pulling down a ladder that helped students"

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

By Wednesday, reporting surfaced that Zacharia sat for the California bar exam after graduating from Pepperdine University’s law school in 2011, but did not pass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, questions about her credentials took center stage, as she identified herself as a lawyer but in fact had never passed the bar exam.

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

Late that summer, still bruising from his failed exam, Mendel planted a crop of peas.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

As Case Western English professor Walt Hunter has argued, schools should “bring back the blue-book exam,” making student grades depend mainly on in-person exams and supervised essays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Neelam described how she was advised to exercise more and lose weight, but her symptoms soon began affecting her studies, causing her to miss lectures and re-sit exams.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

It included a French literature teacher at the Lycee Blaise-Cendrars in the town of Sevran, who said she was not replaced for six months before key exams during her maternity leave.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Opponents of ditching testing requirements argued that the exams are a key tool to uniformly predict academic success from students of divergent backgrounds, as well as schools that may issue grades differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

They were your ticket to university—without those exams, you could not go anywhere or do anything.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda


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