Sentence examples for written examinations from inspiring English sources

Some also required oral and written examinations that lasted two days.

"I guess he means the beautifully written examinations of the human condition".

In some countries great emphasis is placed on formal written examinations supplemented by interviews.

Statistical analysis was in its infancy, and written examinations documented unequal results without easy solutions.

Applicants for diplomatic positions generally are university graduates who face grueling oral and written examinations, which few survive.

China produced a highly competent state, staffed by first-rate civil servants chosen by written examinations and capable of monitoring the affairs of a vast empire.

To an extent unprecedented except possibly in Song times, Ming government was dominated by nonhereditary civil service officials recruited on the basis of competitive written examinations.

In "Learning to Heal," a 1985 history of the medical-education system, Kenneth Ludmerer, examining the Civil War era, writes, "Delusions of an erudite medical profession were shattered by the results of the written examinations of the military medical boards".

In 1871, a Harvard medical-school professor was pressed to give students written examinations as a graduation requirement; he said that it would never work, because fewer than half his students could write.

For her portrait of Koufax, she alternated an inning-by-inning account of that great pitcher's perfect game in 1965 with deeply researched and fluidly written examinations of the rest of his life and import.

FIFA now requires all agents to be licensed and to pass written examinations held by national associations, but there is little global consistency regarding the control of agent powers.