comprehensive examination

1. 1.

   an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge

   “she took her comps in English literature”

   Synonymscomprehensivecomp

   Broaderexamination

Questions about comprehensive examination

What does comprehensive examination mean?

comprehensive examination means "an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge".

What is another word for comprehensive examination?

Close synonyms include comprehensive, comp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comprehensive examination a common word?

comprehensive examination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.