Preliminary Exam (Noun)
Meaning
An examination taken by graduate students to determine their fitness to continue.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The graduate program required a preliminary exam to be taken by all students at the end of their second year.
- She spent months studying for her preliminary exam, which would determine whether she could continue her PhD research.
- Passing the preliminary exam was a major milestone for graduate students in the physics department.
- The results of the preliminary exam would be used to evaluate the students' knowledge and readiness to advance to the dissertation stage.
- Taking and passing the preliminary exam was a prerequisite for all graduate students who wanted to pursue a master's or doctoral degree.