Civil Service Exams. Page updated 7/21/2016. Civil Service Exams | Civil Service Jobs | Federal Civil Service Tests. Civil service exams are required for certain groups including foreign service officers, customs, some secretarial and clerical, air traffic control, law enforcement, postal service, and for some entry level jobs.
Report Abuse. Well a semester is half a year for starts. Semester hours is the amount of credit hours a student takes in a semester, usually for a college or university to count towards a degree. So in other words, 8 Semester hours is 8 credits in half a year.
semester noun [C]. âº either of the two âperiods into which a âyear is âdivided at a âschool or âuniversity: âfall/âspring semester. (Definition of semester from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.