Sentence examples for fewer exams from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it would help if there were fewer exams and more emphasis on coursework.

He took fewer exams than some other students only because of his football commitments.

Choosy teenagers recorded the biggest rise in top grade GCSE passes for almost two decades yesterday – partly by taking fewer exams, in subjects they were best at.

The research found that the impact of the economic downturn for a swath of today's teenagers could last decades, as those whose parents had little schooling or who do not value education gain fewer exams.

Students at Flushing High School, for example, took 69 more exams this year than last, and passed 44 more, but students at the High School for Arts and Business in Queens passed 10 fewer exams in 2008 than in 2007.

At Columbus High School in the Bronx, about 15 seniors who arrived in high school speaking no or limited English hoped to pass so they would have to take fewer exams in June, said Christine Rowland, one of their teachers.

It also adopted policies of no grades and few exams.

Ms. Pierce had taken relatively few exams until she was 16 and attending community college.

Parents upset that their children's graduation will hinge on the outcome of a few exams.

He had been, by his own admission, "scraping by for those first few years", and now he would have to resit a few exams, too.

Her daughter, Manju, is only a few exams away from becoming the slum's first woman to gain a bachelor's degree.