Sentence examples for qualifying exams from inspiring English sources

Andrey stayed behind to take the qualifying exams for the postgraduate fellowship.

In late 1994, Borden took his qualifying exams, and left Chicago.

They had just passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams in nuclear engineering, and were talking about what to do next.

He was a graduate student and he needed to study for his qualifying exams, he said, explaining his irritability.

An early favorite of his professors, he failed his first round of qualifying exams and has become a bit of a pariah, if only in his imagination.

They then return for two years studying for a diploma, and require another year of practical experience before taking final qualifying exams.

New York City, he added, may be a case in point: hundreds of young people failed qualifying exams but didn't show up for compulsory schooling this summer.

So she marched down to Bellevue Hospital's nursing school with her mother, took the qualifying exams for the cadet nurses and passed a physical.

He'd had doubts about pursuing a career in math since the "pressure cooker" of his first year at Stanford, when he failed his qualifying exams (students get two chances; he passed the second time).

Wells's record as a student was inglorious — after three years, he failed to pass his qualifying exams — but the ambition to be taken seriously as some kind of scientist never left him.

But the minister's efforts at reform have run into a wave of violent protests, both among students and among academics who like the status quo.Instead of sitting their qualifying exams, Greek students spent the final weeks of the academic year staging noisy street demonstrations.