examination paper

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While in graduate school, he taught Harvard underclassmen, including future president John F. Kennedy, who wrote a “so-so examination paper for a Harvard American literature course.”

From Washington Post • May 2, 2016

"Such a review conducted by the regulator would be little different in character from the regulator's annual report and could amount to no more than a case of the regulator marking its own examination paper."

From The Guardian • Mar. 11, 2013

The Scotsman talks of her soul; he signs another man's name on his own examination paper in order to get money to provide her with a rest-cure in Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sat there alone—the learned professor—and talked to this snapshot in a dialogue he would have recently accepted as a perfect examination paper for matriculation in an insane-asylum.

From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert