midterm exam

1. 1.

   an examination administered in the middle of an academic term

   Synonymsmidterm examinationmidterm

   Broaderexamination

Questions about midterm exam

What does midterm exam mean?

midterm exam means "an examination administered in the middle of an academic term".

What is another word for midterm exam?

Close synonyms include midterm examination, midterm. 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 midterm exam a common word?

midterm exam 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.