Two National AP Scholar awards were granted to students who averaged a 4 on all exams taken and received at least a 4 on eight or more exams, 28 AP Scholar with Distinction awards were granted to students who averaged at least 3.5 on all exams taken and scored at least a 3 on five or more exams, 51 AP Scholar awards were granted to students who scored at least a 3 on three or more exams.
A brilliant scholar – he came first in exams for both the Home Civil Service and Diplomatic Service – Cairncross was the son of a manager of an ironmonger's shop near Lanark in Scotland.
Since Dakshana started operations in 2007, a total of 344 out of 824 of its scholars have cracked the IIT exam.
But it is socially acceptable to say that one made national merit scholar on the college board exams, as Hillary did, an accomplishment which places one well within the top one percent in IQ.
Born in Chicago, graduated from Princeton, was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford passed his bar exams here in 1924, became a member of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby & Palmer, was a colonel in the Arm Air Force & chief counsel of the N.Y.
But when her future husband, an ambitious scholar, goes off to sit the imperial exam, she is utterly bereft.
The province's most famous dish is almost certainly crossing the bridge noodles, which, legend has it, got its name because a devoted wife brought the noodles across the bridge to where her husband-scholar was studying for exams.
Exam-drafted scholar-officials came mostly from prominent families and could rely on their clan status to advance their careers and place in society.
Despite the disdain for trade, commerce and the merchant class exhibited by the highly cultured and elite exam-drafted scholar-officials, commercialism played a prominent role in Song culture and society.
There is even a ghost-deity associated with exams in China: Zhong Kui, a scholar who killed himself when he was denied first place.
