Preparing to sit the entrance exam

[GoodTaste]

The use of "sit" sounds to be of Indian English to me. If I wrote it, I would use "take...the entrance exam."

The question here is: is such use of "sit" common in AmE or BrE?

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At least 21 people were killed when a bus carrying students preparing to sit their annual college entrance exam plunged into a lake in southwest China on Tuesday.


The bus crashed into a guardrail and veered into Hongshan Lake in Guizhou province, leaving 15 others injured, the local emergency management department said in a statement.

Source: The New Indian Express
https://www.newindianexpress.com/wo...outhwest-chinas-guizhou-province-2166622.html

 

[GoesStation]

British and Canadian students sit exams. Americans take them. I don't know which word other English speakers use.

 

[tedmc]

This is not a good example of Indian English. I have been sitting for exams all my life.

 

[emsr2d2]

In the UK, we both "take" and "sit" exams. We don't use "sit for" as shown in tedmc's previous response.