Exam Quotes

• School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like sergeants. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • School
  • Sports
  • Bored

• I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Friend
  • Subjects
  • Microsoft

• I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Sports
  • Exam
  • Dyslexia

• I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • College
  • Failing
  • Nightmare

• I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

  

  Rhona Mitra
  • Fine
  • Exam

• There are no objective tests in psychiatry-no X-ray, laboratory, or exam finding that says definitively that someone does or does not have a mental disorder.

  

  Allen Frances
  • Findings
  • Laboratory
  • Disorder

• I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Dad
  • Sister
  • After

• Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Stills

• I don't have Romário's technique, Marc Overmars' pace or Patrick Kluivert's strength. But I work harder than the others. I'm like the student who is not as clever, but revises for his exams and does OK in the end.

  

  Carles Puyol
  • Students
  • Ends
  • Harder

• I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Training
  • Determine

• What has happened at Indiana, every game becomes a final exam. You are judged by your most recent performance, and that makes it tough for everybody in the program. It's tough enough to try to win without having that kind of pressure.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Indiana

• I go in for the eye test, and I don't know about you, but I concentrate like crazy during the eye exam. You don't want to get no 'D' on that thing and end up with these big thick Coke bottle glasses.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Crazy
  • Eye
  • Bigs

• 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 teachers diploma.

  

  Sarah Sutton
  • School
  • Teachers
  • Diploma

• To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Time
  • Engineer
  • Emergencies

• Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Gym
  • Machines
  • Sharon

• Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes

• Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

  

  Alan Blinder
  • Life
  • Test
  • Exam

• There is no set way of getting a role - you don't give an exam, score well, and then nail a film.

  

  Radhika Apte
  • Role
  • Getting
  • Score

• Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.

  

  Hedy Lamarr
  • House
  • Fine
  • Experts

• 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
  • People
  • School
  • Hate

• 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
  • School
  • Lucky
  • Academic

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

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Life
  • Trouble
  • Exam

• There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Morality
  • Ethics
  • Commandments

• One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • Focus
  • Succeed
  • Failing