Another group took 40% longer to recover from a wound inside the mouth when they were about to take an exam.

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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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Latvia now has a clean bill of health on human rights from the West, though Russia grumbles that people who moved to Latvia in the Soviet era have to take an exam if they want citizenship.

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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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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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Under its current powers, Ofqual can ultimately take away an exam board's right to set papers.

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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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As an example, to earn the most popular Cisco certification, called Cisco Certified Network Associate, or CCNA, a worker must take an exam, most likely administered by Pearson, the British-based publishing and education company.

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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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