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11. Team up with another student. Act out the situations below, using the 
phrases and collocations from the text:
1. Imagine that you are sharing your experience as to how to take 
examinations with a freshman. Mind, you are not exactly a hard work-
ing student.
2. You are discussing the way written entrance examinations are 
conducted at your university. Basing on your own experience you 
may come up with some criticism and propose a few changes in the 
procedure.
12. Complete each sentence using the text wording:
1. An examination is nothing more than an investigation of a man’s 
knowledge, ... 2. Meanwhile, we despondently ticked the days off the 
calendar .... 3. Whether these people were so brilliant they were able 
to complete the examination in an hour and a half... . 4. If the candidate 

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loses his nerve in front of this terrible displeasure he is finished: ... . 
5. There was the Crammer, fondling the pages of his battered textbook 
in a desperate farewell embrace ... 6. The male examiners are so afraid 
of being prejudiced favorably by their sex ... . 7. We arrived in the 
examination building to find the same candidates there ... . 8. Suc-
cessful men would go upstairs .... 9. I jumped and struggled my way 
to ... . 10. Blindly, like a man just hit by a blackjack, ...
13. Decide whether the following statements are true or false, prove it:
1. To a medical student the final examinations are something like 
a holiday, they look forward to them and enjoy the event. 2. There is 
always frank cheating in medical examinations. 3. Since Malcolm 
Maxworth was St. Swithin’s representative on the examining Com-
mittee we didn’t attend all his ward rounds. 4. I walked down the 
stairs feeling as if I had just finished an eight-round fight. 5. The writ-
ten answers have a certain precision about them, and mistakes and 
omissions, like those of life, can be made without the threat of im-
mediate punishment 6. Women students — the attractive ones — have 
a big advantage in oral examinations. 7. For the first few hours I was 
numbed, perfectly unable to realize what had hit me. 8. Someone 
coughed, and I expected the windows to rattle. 9. My face turned 
deathly pale and I felt my stomach had been suddenly plucked from 
my body. 10. The world stood still.