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/^t/Passing exams is not a fun. Sometimes, or rather usually it is harder to get a signature that allowes you to take the exam. So, the signature is only a first step after a term of tortures. If you think that the exam is the next step, you are completely wrong! Hardly never do you take an exam at this point. You must pass a short test very often before the final battle. It is an oral or written test, or even both of them. There may be possible variations. If you are lucky enough and you are still alive, prepare to the final round. It is a next ambush because if you do not pass it, it happens to many of us, you get one or two more chances. The second and the third one are usually a lot harder to pass than the first round.