It is not an hour in which a pupil sits learning what the tutor has to teach.

The award will often only remain in force until the pupil has sat the next relevant public examination.

Schoolteacher made his pupils sit and learn books for a spell every afternoon.

The pupils sat in American dual desks which slid about a lot.

Year six pupils sit an entrance examination for the senior school in January.

It is an annual course in which pupils must sit an entrance exam.

For the first time the pupils did not work in six groups but just sat at the tables as they chose.

When the school year began, pupils sat in a series of temporary buildings, some without electricity.

In 2005, 51,087 pupils sat for the examination, a 0.4% increase from the previous year.

Although students could obtain this elsewhere, few did and in 1963 only 318 secondary modern pupils sat the exams.