By December, he said, she should be ready to pass the two-hour written certification exam to work men's and women's fights.
(Though aspiring sommeliers need not pass the exam to work in the industry, the master sommelier distinction increases your chances of finding a job at a prestigious restaurant, and therefore can boost your income significantly).
She took the exam to work as a translator three times, but kept failing, because the questions were so hard: "The spider is an insect or an animal?" "Water is a beverage or a food?" Who could answer such questions?
But the test makers designed the exams to work with older technology and software, such as Windows XP, to enable districts to use whatever technology they already have.
After taking the bar exam, he went to work for Goldman Sachs, eventually going his own way.
He took the civil-service exam twice, hoping to work in the Indian Administrative Service, but qualified only for the Revenue Service.
When Kwame Nkrumah won the country's independence from Great Britain, in 1957, Adjaye's father, Affram, who had managed to get an education, took the civil-service exam and went to work for the postal department.
After passing the C.P.A. exam, Pecker went to work as an accountant for CBS, which during the seventies had a magazine division that included Car & Driver, Road & Track, Field & Stream, and Modern Bride.
Becoming allergic to your research may sound like a classic avoidance strategy — like coming down with the flu (cough, cough) right before that big exam, or having to work (what a drag) on the weekend the in-laws come to visit.
After passing the New York bar exam, he went to work as a clerk for the distinguished Wall Street firm of Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn, but he displayed the same attitude of indifference toward the legal profession as he had toward his education.
Last month, he issued an emergency edict to force schoolteachers on the verge of striking during exams to return to work.
