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entrance examination

n. An examination used by an educational institution to select which students it will grant admission to.

WordNet
entrance examination

n. examination to determine a candidate's preparation for a course of studies [syn: entrance exam]

Usage examples of "entrance examination".

Hilary had passed the entrance examination and was now at King Edwards, and the two boys would walk together down to New Street if there was time, or would take a horse-bus if the clock at Five Ways showed that they were late.

Moses had arranged for them to write the entrance examination for this elite multi-racial school across the border in the independent black kingdom of Swaziland, and the twins had both passed and been accepted and how were dreading the day not far away when they would be uprooted from this comfortable familiar world of theirs and packed off into the unknown.

It was not good enough to enable him to pass the Little Go - that is the entrance examination to Cambridge - and I sent him abroad with his tutor to travel.

Entrance can be by examination (usually College Entrance Examination Boards) or by high school certificate.

The Guild had taken him so quickly -- so unexpectedly -- after he'd passed their entrance examination.

It was this income that allowed Persis to acquire the books to prepare for the entrance examination to the college.

Rincewind was pretty sure there weren't any trolls here, because it was probably too hot for them and anyway there wouldn't be enough room for them on the driftwood, what with all those camels, but these men definitely had the heavy-set look of men who occupy the kind of job where the entrance examination is 'What is your name?

The mail had brought a letter to his breakfast table to notify him that his son had failed the entrance examination for the Civil Service Academy, and there had been a general family quarrel.

You mean the College authorities accept candidates who have taken no entrance examination and who have no A-levels?

The Law School entrance examination, which I had feared, turned out to be fairly easy, and I passed it with a high score.