The papers are set by the dons, and as is the case with all tutorial exercises, the results have nothing at all to do with the class a man receives in the public examinations--mods and finals.
The logical sequence of honor mods is literae humaniores; but one may choose instead modern history, theology, Oriental studies, or English.
As classical mods are supposed to cover all the subjects essential to polite education, election is mainly a question as to the ancient authors read.
The school of history is open to those who have taken pass mods, and even to those who have taken the jurisprudence preliminary, though mods is usually preferred in order to give a man the use of the necessary languages.
They do this by reading for moderations, for pass moderations as well as honor mods may be followed by an honor school at finals.
The Duke's First in Mods oppressed him (who, by dint of dogged industry, had scraped a Second) more than all the other differences between them.
But now, suddenly, they seemed near to him--nearer and more overpowering than the First in Mods had ever been.
They had a couple of mods that were supposed to fit them better for the mission.
The mods had consisted of tying a third rocket stage out behind, so that Sid could move us around the orbit from one Telstar to the next if my work on the first one proved out.
Eights Week came to an end with the scarlet and lilies still second; and without the heartening effect of a bump-supper the candidates for Pass Mods applied themselves violently to the matter in hand.
He would have to settle down: his second in Mods had been a fluky affair, based rather on previous knowledge than on any real work done at Oxford.
Martin never discovered whether he actually felt any enthusiasm for May as a real person abstracted from Mods and his own despair and the black mass of circumstance: he didn't think about it, but just took her as she was.
Mods in the actual presence afforded him eight days of consummate torture.
Chard and Davenant, who were to take modern history, both failed in Pass Mods in March, but passed in the summer after a fortnight's reading.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
