Definitions
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- v. To take an examination for a second time, after first failing.
- n. Such an examination.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I know they allow some people to resit maths or english alongside A levels if they failed, thanks.
Will they let me do A levels please help? « Adult Literacy-2 « Literacy Help « Literacy News
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I admire the President for always trying to include the Republicans within his agenda, even when they have pledged to resit and vote NO on all his proposals.
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Update 15/1/2010: The hearing session of Ms Neelie Kroes by a commission of EU parlementarians had a surprising end: Ms Kroes will be invited for a resit.
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Perhaps Ed has had to do a resit - or just cleared off on hol for a time?
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Reforms to A-levels in 2000, which split courses into six modules, with pupils able to resit exams to improve their grades, have been criticised for failing to prepare students for university life.
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Let's avoid forcing our help onto people who don't want the help and in fact may actively resist our help, and as a consequence resit our efforts to bring help to people that genuinely need and want it.
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Trainee teachers can resit basic literacy and numeracy tests as often as they like—and 13% need at least three goes at the latter.
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I now can't register until I pay this resit fee and until I do that I still have no libary access or access to the online facilities.
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Then I wasn't expecting to have to pay for this years tuition fees as I had payed up front before but unfortunatly due to the way that has all be hashed up I am now being asked to pay a resit fee of HALF the origonal - this makes me angry as I was sick and didn't just drop out.
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Or, indeed, they're being taught to a relentlessly narrow, exam-focused syllabus by teachers under strict and unambiguous orders to get the pass rate up by any means necessary - and are being spoon-fed the right answers and allowed to resit failed exams to a point that amounts to flat-out cheating.
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