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PRELIMINARY EXAM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does preliminary exam mean?
• PRELIMINARY EXAM (noun)
The noun PRELIMINARY EXAM has 1 sense:
1. an examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
Familiarity information: PRELIMINARY EXAM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
prelim; preliminary exam; preliminary examination
Hypernyms ("preliminary exam" is a kind of...):
exam; examination; test (a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge)
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