School Exam Quotes

#1. I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary Leakey

#2. anyone who has crammed for a school exam knows how easy it is to misquote in a showdown.

Jack Lait

#3. A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

Doug Larson

#4. I passed the 11-plus, but it was decided that I should take the Common Entrance exam to Monmouth School, the nearest independent. I was never entirely comfortable there, as they didn't have girls, and they played rugby instead of football.

Saul David

#5. Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teacher's diploma.

Sarah Sutton

#6. I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.

Lesley Nicol

#7. Stupid Ape: I had to quantify this with the word "stupid" so as not to offend the ape community. Large of limb, impotent of intellect, he was the kind of guy who lettered in leg-breaking at thug school but flunked the written exam because he didn't know which end of the e-pencil to use.

John Zakour

#8. I was quite into biology and chemistry at school, and I did well in my maths, so I quite fancied a career in forensics or something like that. But I bet if you put a maths exam paper in front of me now I wouldn't have a clue.

Nikki Sanderson

#9. Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

Criss Jami

#10. My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

Peter Higgs

#11. The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life ...

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#12. To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam.

Jennifer Granholm

#13. You don't really need to be intelligent to be a 'top student.' All that you have to do is to forget the least in an exam.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

Chris Oyakhilome

#15. Please be aware that your exam scores provide you only with your entrance into the school. They do not ensure your ability to stay.

Anne Osterlund

#16. The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.

John Green

#17. I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Bennett

#18. All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It was the only thing I ever got right at school.

David Bailey