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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
exam
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an exam/a test question
▪ You have to answer twenty exam questions.
exam nerves
▪ Quite a few of the students suffered from exam nerves.
study for an exam/diploma etc
▪ I’ve only got three weeks left to study for my exams.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
final
▪ Hundreds of riot police on Nov. 2 clashed with students in Dhaka protesting against recent legislation to curb cheating in final exams.
▪ Thousands of students are diligently filling out final exams with Number 2 pencils.
▪ On top of this, I face my final exams at the end of the year.
▪ This week, final exams or not, she is in no mood to tolerate poor practices.
▪ Mr Foecke has claimed he scored passes in 13 out of 13 final exam papers.
▪ Staying up for a week during final exams is nothing compared to months of interrupted sleep with an infant.
▪ The usual summer crush of final exams was supplanted by the trappings of grief.
▪ There will, I promise you, be a final exam.
oral
▪ The navy board was the last in a gauntlet of oral exams.
▪ Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
physical
▪ Sedentary men, particularly those over 40, should not start a running program without a physical exam, he said.
▪ To his embarrassment, he failed the physical exam.
▪ The task force recommends physical exams every one to three years, essentially duplicating the screenings for the younger group.
▪ It also offers all marathon and triathlon participants free basic physical exams before the race.
written
▪ Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam.
▪ The candidates faced hours of written exams, manoeuvres and then a gruelling road test through Milton Keynes.
▪ The majority of marks will come from a written exam.
▪ They attacked the internal assessments, which teachers have normally defended as superior to the traditional written exams.
▪ The award will be based on continual assessments of skills and competence so staff will not have to sit any written exams.
▪ The course is assessed by two extended essays, four essays and a written exam.
■ NOUN
bar
▪ He went to Oxford from secondary school but failed his Bar exams, unlike his father and brother.
▪ The begin-ning of real trouble was flunking the bar exam and receiving, in turn, a reduced salary from my firm.
▪ In the service, I met an impressive guy who had just passed the Massachusetts bar exam.
▪ She graduated and passed bar exams in two states on her first try.
entrance
▪ Even so, without his father's family connection he wouldn't have scraped through the entrance exam.
▪ An entrance exam guides students into one of four academic tracks, ranging from highly gifted to remedial.
▪ He failed a university entrance exam.
▪ She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.
▪ It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.
▪ There are juku to help four-year-olds pass entrance exams for elite kindergartens.
▪ Students often have a good idea of what scores they need on college-#entrance exams to earn acceptance letters and scholarships.
▪ There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
fee
▪ The offer could save schools up to £1,500 a year in exam fees, which currently cost about £15 per entry.
question
▪ Recently, a friend of mine who's a teacher was looking through files of exam questions stored on a floppy disk.
▪ Look at Heisenberg, which is part of a real exam question set in June 1992.
▪ Because exam questions and essay titles often ask you to judge texts, it can be difficult to avoid such patronising effects.
▪ We looked at labels and washing powders with more interest and at new washing machines with economy programmes - another exam question.
▪ It is a bit like asking a number of students an exam question.
result
▪ She says many things other than exam results make a good school.
▪ Worshippers come by bus or car to pray to their ancestors, or perhaps for their children's exam results.
▪ Class composition and exam results are monitored.
▪ Users tended to be children with low expectations of good exam results and generally low esteem.
▪ He never really saw the effort, the nervous breakdowns, the tears for poor exam results or exultation over good ones.
▪ A bottle of vintage champagne was cracked open, and a toast drunk to Virginia's exam results received a few days earlier.
▪ He takes little interest in me apart from how I look and what my exam results are like.
▪ We will publish test results, exam results and truancy rates and ensure that there is regular independent inspection.
school
▪ The militants enforced the ban on cheating in school exams, and even that old tradition disappeared.
■ VERB
fail
▪ He went to Oxford from secondary school but failed his Bar exams, unlike his father and brother.
▪ I might have failed a physics exam.
▪ How did you manage to fail all those exams?
▪ To his embarrassment, he failed the physical exam.
▪ He failed a university entrance exam.
▪ She was still holding the newspaper clipping about the woman who committed suicide when her son failed his college entrance exam.
▪ But he said the young man's fears that he would fail his exams were almost certainly unfounded.
pass
▪ She had to pass her exams.
▪ She graduated and passed bar exams in two states on her first try.
▪ What's the point of a head when it can't pass exams?
▪ There are even juku to help kids pass entrance exams to get into prestigious juku.
▪ Reply: It was the day I passed my exam.
▪ Poor boys from the provinces could rise above the sons of tycoons if only they could pass the Todai entrance exam.
▪ If teachers only got paid for pupils passing their exams, there are some pupils who'd never get any education at all.
▪ The Royal children might even pass a few exams which is more than their expensively educated Mummies and Daddies managed.
sit
▪ It is another two years before they sit their university entrance exam.
▪ In this case the Project becomes a temporary centre and they sit the exams there.
▪ The children sit for normal exams at the local school and have so far maintained a necessary standard.
▪ She was still at school, and sat her exams when she was four or five months pregnant.
▪ The award will be based on continual assessments of skills and competence so staff will not have to sit any written exams.
▪ These opportunities start with the Staff Progression Scheme where all employees are encouraged to sit three levels of exams.
study
▪ Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam.
▪ I've been up late every night studying for exams and now I've got puffy eyes.
take
▪ I had the tutor for a year right until I took my exams.
▪ And then Clinton takes over the exam, moving it to the oddest of venues.
▪ He agreed and said he would train me so that I could take the necessary exams.
▪ Offered promotion, he is told that he will be obliged to take a brief exam.
▪ This is a set of databases which collect all the pupils' details, from absences to courses taken and exam presentations.
▪ The impostors allegedly traveled to different testing site to take the exams, showing fake drivers' licenses or military identifications.
▪ She says that Helen had to take 99 exams to qualify as an astronaut.
▪ Many students take 10 or more exams to ensure entry to a good school.
write
▪ Students will have to produce a portfolio of work and successfully complete a written exam to gain a unit qualification.
▪ Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
▪ Evening and weekend study, writing reports and taking exams can all prove quite stressful.
▪ They have to hire most employees from lists of those who have taken written civil service exams.
▪ Applicants may take a written exam, undergo a preliminary interview, or submit records of their education and experience for evaluation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
exam-setter/policy-setter etc
written test/exam
▪ After passing the written test, Solomon began his driving lessons.
▪ Applicants may take a written exam, undergo a preliminary interview, or submit records of their education and experience for evaluation.
▪ Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam.
▪ Pudwill said only five passed among the 60 in his group that took the written test.
▪ Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
▪ The written test success rates are given in the table below.
▪ The results are from written tests unless otherwise stated.
▪ Thus, although these pupils generally have difficulty with reading, this does not mean that written tests should be ruled out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a chemistry exam
▪ Final exams will be just before Christmas.
▪ He's upstairs, revising for an exam.
▪ How did you do in your exams?
▪ In Japan, entrance exams are very important, and many children go to extra classes to prepare for them.
▪ Students are not allowed to talk during the examination.
▪ We have a biology exam tomorrow, and I haven't done any work for it yet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At one point, Fred cheated on an exam.
▪ How did you manage to fail all those exams?
▪ Proving that I could do it, and do it well, was finally my sole motivation when I began my exams.
▪ She says many things other than exam results make a good school.
▪ Study past exam papers, noting the exam format, the choice of questions, and the all-important time limit.
▪ The exam covered the material they had read; they were allowed to use their notes.
▪ The task force recommends physical exams every one to three years, essentially duplicating the screenings for the younger group.
▪ We were then given a simple exam which consisted of crossing out stupid answers in order to leave the least stupid one.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
exam

Test \Test\, n. [OE. test test, or cupel, potsherd, F. t[^e]t, from L. testum an earthen vessel; akin to testa a piece of burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd, perhaps for tersta, and akin to torrere to patch, terra earth (cf. Thirst, and Terrace), but cf. Zend tasta cup. Cf. Test a shell, Testaceous, Tester a covering, a coin, Testy, T[^e]te-[`a]-t[^e]te.]

  1. (Metal.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

    Our ingots, tests, and many mo.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test. ``Bring me to the test.''
    --Shak.

  3. Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

    Each test every light her muse will bear.
    --Dryden.

  4. That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

    Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
    --Pope.

  5. Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

    Our test excludes your tribe from benefit.
    --Dryden.

  6. Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

    Who would excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?
    --Dryden.

  7. (Chem.) A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.

  8. A set of questions to be answered or problems to be solved, used as a means to measure a person's knowledge, aptitude, skill, intelligence, etc.; in school settings, synonymous with examination or exam; as, an intelligence test. Also used attributively; as a test score, test results. Test act (Eng. Law), an act of the English Parliament prescribing a form of oath and declaration against transubstantiation, which all officers, civil and military, were formerly obliged to take within six months after their admission to office. They were obliged also to receive the sacrament according to the usage of the Church of England. --Blackstone. Test object (Optics), an object which tests the power or quality of a microscope or telescope, by requiring a certain degree of excellence in the instrument to determine its existence or its peculiar texture or markings. Test paper.

    1. (Chem.) Paper prepared for use in testing for certain substances by being saturated with a reagent which changes color in some specific way when acted upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc.

    2. (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of proving handwriting. Test tube. (Chem.)

      1. A simple tube of thin glass, closed at one end, for heating solutions and for performing ordinary reactions.

      2. A graduated tube.

        Syn: Criterion; standard; experience; proof; experiment; trial.

        Usage: Test, Trial. Trial is the wider term; test is a searching and decisive trial. It is derived from the Latin testa (earthen pot), which term was early applied to the fining pot, or crucible, in which metals are melted for trial and refinement. Hence the peculiar force of the word, as indicating a trial or criterion of the most decisive kind.

        I leave him to your gracious acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commediation.
        --Shak.

        Thy virtue, prince, has stood the test of fortune, Like purest gold, that tortured in the furnace, Comes out more bright, and brings forth all its weight.
        --Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
exam

college student slang shortened form of examination, 1848.

Wiktionary
exam

n. (context informal English) (form of Shortened form examination English) ''especially when meaning'' test ''or in compound terms.''

WordNet
exam

n. a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questions" [syn: examination, test]

Wikipedia
Exam (2009 film)

Exam is a 2009 British psychological thriller film written by Simon Garrity and Stuart Hazeldine, directed by Hazeldine, and starring Colin Salmon, Chris Carey, Jimi Mistry, Luke Mably, Gemma Chan, Chuk Iwuji, John Lloyd Fillingham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Adar Beck and Nathalie Cox.

Exam (2003 film)

Exam is a 2003 Romanian drama film directed by Titus Muntean.

Exam (disambiguation)

An exam is an informal term for a test.

Exam may also refer to:

  • Exam (2009 film), a British film
  • Exam (2003 film), a Romanian film

Usage examples of "exam".

He joined the atelier of Carolus-Duran, one of the few artists who welcomed American students, and he quickly passed the rigorous exams to study drawing at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts.

His body now lay motionless in the Bollman Funeral Home, awaiting a postmortem exam that might answer some of the many questions about his death.

Gee whiz, you have to think quick at school exams, but cracky, leopards are worse than school principals, I should hope.

Petrovitch had taken and passed the astronavigation exam the exact same time Rimmer had made his claims to fishhood, and was now merely waiting for his orders to be processed before he got his gold bar and took up the rank of Astronavigation Officer, Fourth Class.

In the end, Marilee had accepted the offered fee and consented to help Scott with his studies, not only because she knew the importance of his scoring high on his college entrance exams but because few could say no to Wes Hamer and make it stick.

Friday afternoon when I was packing up exams to grade over the weekend, Dee Sunderland poked her head into my homeroom and asked me if I felt like joining her for a cup of coffee.

The exam lasted for nine humanish hours, with Jani knowing every step of the way that only one other being in the room wanted her to succeed.

Then we could run laps, and you could study for the comprehensive exams.

Before licensure, naturopathic physicians must complete at least 4,000 hours of study in specified subject areas and then pass a series of rigorous professional board exams.

He waited until she had handed her exam to Nerine and then took her arm.

Despite poorly paid professors and regular assaults by segregationist state politicians on academic freedom of thought, Ole Miss students equaled or beat national norms in most fields in graduThe Warrior25 ate exams, and the school produced more Rhodes scholars than almost every other Southern university.

The first time he went to take his exam, Isailo Suk was relieved to see that the head of the examining board was an instructor from his faculty, who had recently taken his doctoral orals before a commission Suk himself had chaired, and whom he often saw through the window sitting in the Third Boot Tavern.

Pop Yaffe was an old-time flier who could no longer pass the medical exams to qualify as a pilot, but he had more time than anyone else in the squadron with the possible exception of Muhlfield.

That evening, she avoided her room and escaped to the Study Lounge to cram for an astronavigation exam.

The Cozzano campaign also issued a blooper reel of its own, showing the incumbent President and Tip McLane tripping over their shoelaces and slurring words, and suggested that these two might want to have neurological exams of their own.