preliminary exam

1. 1.

   an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue

   Synonymspreliminary examinationprelim

   Broaderexamination

Questions about preliminary exam

What does preliminary exam mean?

preliminary exam means "an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue".

What is another word for preliminary exam?

Close synonyms include preliminary examination, prelim. 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 preliminary exam a common word?

preliminary 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.