11.   Linda Denham, a past president of the Georgia Board of Chiropractic Examiners, pointed to the below-average passing rates of students on the national exams.

12.   Nor is it out to impose a national exam or take over traditional state and local roles and responsibilities in education, no matter what its critics say.

13.   President Clinton has advocated the adoption of voluntary national exams pegged to national standards that would allow parents to compare district to district, state to state.

14.   So Chinese students throw rocks at the U.S. embassy while preparing to take the national English exams to get into a U.S. university.

15.   Students need to graduate from an accredited program to take the national exams that are required for a chiropractic license.

16.   The Ministry of Health and Welfare is adding to the national medical exam a section on bioethics and patient rights.

17.   They have been unable to produce sufficient documents to obtain licenses here or to pass the national licensing exam required of all other doctors in the United States.

18.   And in Scotland, about two-thirds of students pass a national exam of core academic subjects.

19.   Entry to universities is supposed to be determined by a single national exam that is computer-graded to ensure fairness.

20.   The number of lawyers is strictly regulated and the national judicial exam is considered one of the most difficult in a country obsessed with passing examinations.