exam

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Cap bearing the badge of the Indian Police Service, the highest-trained level of police officers who must pass the Indian civil service exam.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Two decades later, I sat in an exam room with a new gynecologist, answering routine questions: Age of first period.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

After graduating in 2007, he joined a tutoring agency in Beijing that helps university students prepare for the national graduate entrance exam.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Pitch, who said she knew one student in hospital with meningitis, said her exam had been moved online.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

We’d be more OK on time if she’d scraped her hair into a ponytail and skipped the makeup, but that’s a useless thought to have when we’re less than thirty minutes out from exam time.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison