Sentence examples for failed the examination from inspiring English sources

Twenty-four banks failed the examination.

In '28 he tried to join the Air Corps but failed the examination & had to take additional courses at the U. of S. California.

Cui Shi — married to an impoverished scholar, Zhu Maichen, who has failed the examination for a government position repeatedly over two decades — loses patience (actually, you suspect from the portrayal that she never did have much) and leaves him for a carpenter.

Foyle's, which according to its ads, has "the largest bookselling business of its kind in the world," got started in this century, when two teen-age boys William Alfred Foyle & his younger brother Gilbert, bought a couple of dozen textbooks in order to study for civil service exams They failed the examination but succeeded in selling their books from their home in the London suburb of Shoreditch.

Of the study population's 286 students 219 (76.6%) attempted the NCFE of which 20 (9.1%) failed the examination.

"Anybody that failed the examination to this extent wouldn't be a very credible witness in my opinion".

He applied for entry to the Foreign Office, but failed the examinations.

At the age of 11 he failed the examinations that would have taken him to grammar school, and instead went to the local Kinsley Secondary Modern School.

By Mavis Gallant The New Yorker, October 4 , 1982P. 40 To the astonishment of no one except his parents Luc Clairvoie fails the examination that should have propelled him into one of the finest engineering schools in Paris.

Furthermore, some commercial review courses offer a money back guarantee and given the longevity of the course, one may surmise that more course participants pass the examination than fail the examination as the course continues to be profitable.

Despite this, there was a tendency of more students to fail the examination in the PBE-group (8 vs. 2 in the CBE-group, 12.9% vs. 5.6%).