The ruling says Bryant indicated he would not go to the hospital, and the detectives then informed him they had a court order saying they could take him for such an exam.

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An inquiry began when a tutor noticed identical answers to a take-home exam for an undergraduate politics course.

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Other variations: being one credit short of the number required to graduate, missing a critical court date or having to take an exam in a course for which they never went to class.

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This will include encouragement for children to take GCSEs a year early, which could also have advantages in an overcrowded exam timetable.

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For instance, powerful mages are granted the "Time Warp" ability which lets them take eight minutes longer to finish an exam.

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