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I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present. -- Hugh Jackman
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race. -- Johann Lamont
I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would. -- Mary Leakey
When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams. -- Eric Topol
I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate. -- Daniela Hantuchova
I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic. -- Cat Deeley
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
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
Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities. -- Martha Beck
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
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
I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. -- Rupert Graves
Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results. -- Richard Dawkins
The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
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
I think sometimes parents and teachers can push children away from reading by telling them it's something they must do, the same way they must eat their greens and must pass their exams in school. Poppycock! Read or don't read - that's your call. -- Darren Shan
All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came. -- Rebel Wilson
I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy it one little bit! The only time I did enjoy it was when I was asked to read out loud in front of the class, as I then used it as an acting exercise! -- Rachel Tucker
I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot, but I had to do all these exams, and it was just like working in an office. I couldn't stand that. -- Theo Jansen
Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam. -- Mildred S. Dresselhaus
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
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
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance. -- Julie Payette
We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed. -- John Grisham

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