Word: exam
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very disappointed in my first year in Germany,” he says. “I didn’t find it such a great place to explore academic interests. It was just memorizing a lot of stuff for the exam, and I wanted to see if there was a different way of doing it.” Many visiting students take the opportunity to look beyond their main area of study. “The reason I came here is to scope out the subjects I can’t take at home,” says Martin...
...major goal of the reorganization plan should be to help make schools more appealing to all students in addition to simply saving money. New curricula and better teacher training should accommodate the influx of new students, better prepare students for the statewide MCAS exam and help stem the flight from public schools. The youth of Cambridge’s public education system would be best served if all money saved from the mergers was channeled directly back into the School Department, allowing it to pursue these goals...
...relatively well—so much so that within six years of our respective arrival (my father came in 1944, while my mother and I came in 1946), we had become American citizens. My mother, much to her regret, remained Portuguese. She could never pass the standard U.S. Naturalization exam, an exercise which most native-born Americans would be equally unable to pass...
...gender: Jeannie gets sexually harassed, Lynne is accused of infatuation with a male client, Sarah blurts out an anti-lesbian slur. Lest you miss the X chromosomity of it all, Jeannie even sues on behalf of a woman whose ob-gyn passes out face first into her during an exam...
...there were such a thing as an interstellar vision exam, humans would qualify as legally blind. That?s because all we can see is ordinary, visible light. But stars and galaxies shine with all sorts of other radiation as well. For their work in probing these otherwise invisible signals from space Raymond Davis, 87 of the University of Pennsylvania; Masatoshi Koshiba, 76, of the University of Tokyo; and the Italian-born U.S. citizen Riccardo Giacconi, 71, of Associated Universities Inc. in Washington, D.C, each got a share of the Nobel prize in Physics announced in Stockholm Tuesday...