preliminary examination

1. 1.

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

   Synonymspreliminary examprelim

   Broaderexamination

Questions about preliminary examination

What does preliminary examination mean?

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

What is another word for preliminary examination?

Close synonyms include preliminary exam, 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 examination a common word?

preliminary 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.