WordNet
n. examination to determine a candidate's preparation for a course of studies [syn: entrance examination]
Usage examples of "entrance exam".
Schemed his way into Administration after he'd flunked the entrance exam.
I begin to request math texts from the library so I can prep for the entrance exam.
Then I went to an entrance exam for students coming into the engineering school.
He wondered what phenomenal material remained to be presented in the courses themselves, since all the knowledge of the galaxy seemed to be required just to pass the entrance exam.
But it was not true, as he so often claimed, that two of his dolphins could pass a university entrance exam.
He'll fit right in with the light, he'll pass that entrance exam, they'll greet him with songs, you know?
Despite unspectacular grades, perhaps because of a good Graduate Entrance Exam score, possibly due to the odd letter I wrote in which I explained I wished first of all to be the world's greatest gigolo and, second, to write, I was accepted into the graduate writing program.