I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

- Billy Childish

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

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

- Dan Shechtman

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

- Daniela Hantuchova

When I went to medical school, the term 'digital' applied only to rectal exams.

- Eric Topol

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

- Edith Evans

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

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

- Hanna Rosin

Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.

- Hayley Mills

President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

- Jonathan Kozol

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

- Kazuo Ishiguro

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

- Karl von Frisch

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

- Lily James

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

- Rhona Mitra

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

- Rupert Graves

I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.

- Warren Ellis