When my exams are over vs When my exams would end

Both phrases are correct, but they are used in different contexts. 'When my exams are over' is used to talk about a future event that will happen after the exams have finished. 'When my exams would end' is less common and sounds more formal, but it can be used to express a hypothetical situation or a future event in a more conditional way.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 5686 views

When my exams are over

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to talk about a future event that will happen after the exams have finished.

Examples:

I will go on vacation when my exams are over.
We can celebrate when my exams are over.
When my exams are over, I will have more free time.
She plans to relax when her exams are over.
He will start looking for a job when his exams are over.

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Exams are over, Booky Two Shoes.
I'm in love, exams are over, and he's alive.
Since college entrance exams are over, I wanted to give all of you hard working students a happy song as a present to give you strength.
Sometimes, when he and his men would take over my exam rooms, I would listen through the air vents.
But just because my exams were over didn't mean my problems suddenly were.
- Well, I'll be glad when that exam is over.
I sent in the application for the exam over a month ago.
Take the exam over next year.
We just jam a whole bunch of facts down their throats over here and then they puke it up on an exam over here and everybody goes home with no added intellectual heft whatsoever.
Because there is a kid bleeding all over exam room one.
The exam is over, goodbye!
The exam is all over, so they dress up like that already.
~ I'm really stressing over this exam.
Particularly the local management of the programmes gives rise to organisational problems, and uncertainties over whether exams will be recognised are also common.
Before he dragged Des out the window, he turned over the exam room pretty good.
Your Excellency, I must have a place of my own... where I can go when my duties are over for the day.
Light... Didn't you say that you weren't going out until entrance exams were over?
Vitals and repeat neuro exam are unchanged.
Your intern exams are in two weeks.
I studied for my exams, my exams...

Alternatives:

after my exams are finished
once my exams are done
when my exams end
when my exams are completed
when my exams come to an end

When my exams would end

This phrase is correct but less common in everyday English.

This phrase can be used to express a hypothetical situation or a future event in a more conditional way.

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If I did well in my exams would Mum come home, Grandma?
Yes as soon as I ace the exam your servitude ends.
And you must pass an exam at the end of each year.
I'm organising the kids' end of exam party.
Every year kids slip and fall outside Ms. Fatale's classroom right before the year-end statewide exams.
She has exams at the end of the month.
As millions of teens around the country cram for this week end's exam we'll talk with John Katzman, author of the best-selling Cracking the PSAT.
I studied for my exams, my exams...
Two years and I could have passed my exams.
My exam's the day before yours.
Now my exam didn't turn up anything medically.
If I fail my exams, the year's wasted.
Dad brought it, It's for my exams.
Yes... I've finished my exams.
I have to pass my exams next month.
And I think I failed my exams.
I did my exams in there.
I have just passed my exams.
My exam's next week, ma'am.
Now I have six weeks to study for my exam.

Alternatives:

if my exams were to end
in the event that my exams end
should my exams end
were my exams to end
if my exams were to finish

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When my exams are over vs When my exams would end