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.
A semester divides the school year into two equal parts. This means that if the academic year is 32 weeks, each semester is 16 weeks long. In different countries, in differentâ¦ colleges and universities, the academic year has no standard, so the length may vary.