Taking up an exam

[Benjamin Barrett]

I suppose people might say "review", but "go over an exam" is the
default expression for me in Seattle and I think it's better because it
actually has the specific meaning that you mention. BB

Geoff Nathan wrote:
> In discussion late last night among linguists who are both Canadian and
> American the expression to 'take up an exam' came up (sorry...)
> Are readers here familiar with the sense 'go over an exam after it has
> been returned to explain the correct answers'?  It was the sense of some
> of us that the term is exclusively Canadian, perhaps limited to one or
> two provinces.  I couldn't find the expression in the archives (at least
> the ones searchable via Linguistlist)
>

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