- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exam Quotes
On tests, results, and the relief of being done.
These quotes capture the exam experience, from the relief of finishing a final exam to the unusual memory of receiving school exam results while cleaning out a pigsty. Students preparing for a test may also want our Wishes for exams.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master's exam at age 21.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.
- Assured
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had dense, cyst-prone breasts, so I didn't think much of it when my OB/GYN discovered a lump on a routine physical exam in August of 2006. 'It's a cyst,' she assured me, and I believed her. Several weeks after, I had a negative mammogram, which should have reassured me. Only something felt wrong about this particular lump.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an overly confident college freshman, the first time I received a below-average score on an exam was a needed wake-up call.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.
- Physics
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- Nov 07, 2020
My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.
- Handed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At eight or nine I passed the exam for Notting Hill and Ealing High, a private school. I had an assisted place; I was always the one who, for financial reasons, didn't go on the skiing trip or whatever.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020