Sentence examples for revised exams from inspiring English sources

The 600,000 pupils who take GCSEs each year in England will, from 2015, face what the DfE describes as more challenging course content, with the first of the revised exams being sat in 2017.

Pupils who have begun secondary school this year will be the first to take the revised exams in 2017.

But the revised exam also asks students to read short excerpts from different texts and answer questions about them.

— CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE Revised exam in U.S. for medical school entrance The body that administers the Medical College Admission Test, the examination required for entry into most U.S. medical schools, has announced plans to release a revised exam in 2015.

The revised exam will require the analysis of unseen texts, which the DfE says will reward students who have read widely.

When these are summed to determine a final revised exam score, the total exam score is rounded up, as necessary -- e.g., from 39.5 to 40 or 45.5 to 46.

"The D.O.E./Board of Regents position on the passing score for this exam, with attention to college and career readiness, will be re-examined in conjunction with administering a revised exam in this subject area aligned to the Common Core State Standards," a spokesman for Dr. King wrote.

The College Board's revised exam won't make an appearance until 2016.

The biological, chemical, and physical parts of the revised exam will be built around five foundation concepts that play the role of the competencies laid out in the SFFP report.

Mr. Mills said that if most students were passing the revised Regents exams, it was only because they were working harder.

In 1996 Commissioner Mills, with strong support from the 16-member Board of Regents, proposed that all students in New York be required to pass the state's revised Regents exams to earn a high school diploma.