How to Use exam in a Sentence

exam

noun
  • Your final exam will count for half of the semester's grade.
  • Get your hands off women’s bodies and out of the exam room.
    Sarah Varney, NBC News, 22 July 2023
  • Mary had the patient cleaned up and sitting on the edge of an exam table.
    Andrew Weil, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The tool has passed exams from law and business schools – and been used to help some students cheat.
    Jennifer Korn, CNN, 15 May 2023
  • The two were part of a group of study partners who grew close at school and then prepared for the bar exam as a team.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The average score for Black students on the exam was 80, up two points from the year prior.
    Maura Turcotte, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But white test-takers passed the exam at far higher rates than ...
    Alexander Hughes, National Review, 21 July 2023
  • The exam is administered in the spring but students can retest in the summer.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In 2014, Scott spent six months studying for the Virginia bar exam, passing on his first try.
    Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The dog was sent to a veterinarian for a wellness exam and was found to be in good health.
    Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 May 2023
  • After passing the exam, the person must schedule a road test.
    Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023
  • That would be Week 1 of the regular season, the final exam for training camp.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a long, detailed set of requirements that must be met in order to take that exam of all exams: the check ride.
    Sarah Schutte, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Students will take the digital exam on Bluebook, an app that was built in-house by the College Board.
    Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 5 Mar. 2024
  • While most GPs can perform basic skin exams during a checkup, Dr. Markowitz has seen the rare case where a melanoma was missed.
    Beth Sobol, Allure, 29 Nov. 2023
  • After feeding the dog a few more bowls of food and gaining the pup's trust, Flint took the canine to a local vet to get an exam and to check for a microchip.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
  • English learners in 8th grade saw their average scores on the reading portion of the exam climb by four points.
    Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • Joyce was scheduled for an MRI exam Saturday, the results of which have not yet been revealed.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2023
  • The board also said a preliminary analysis found that the two exams do not test math on the same grade level.
    Denise Royal, CNN, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The court set the probable cause conference for March 19 and the preliminary exam for March 26.
    Don Reid, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Only high school seniors or high school graduates can take the exam.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • At Ian’s city-run neighborhood school, P.S. 62, just 14% of students passed state reading exams last year.
    Abigail Kramer, ProPublica, 23 May 2023
  • According to the College Board, the pilot course is set to expand to hundreds of additional high schools this school year, with the first course exams rolling out in the spring of 2024.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Since Kairan is 14 and had passed the high school equivalency exam, those restrictions didn’t apply to him.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • The space was just big enough for a desk and a couple of chairs, and one of my teachers was giving up his lunch break to prepare me for a university entrance exam.
    Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • This coming year, for the first time, students can earn potential college credit by taking the AP exam for this course.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2023
  • The exam report will be submitted to District Judge George Gallagher.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2024
  • In South Korea, the annual exam known as the Suneung is a serious matter.
    Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Classic Learning Test is the college admissions exam that most students have never heard of.
    Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But starting next year, would-be barristers in Oregon can bypass the exam and still practice law.
    Bychris Morris, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023

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