external examinationnoun [ C ]
uk/ɪkˌstɜː.nəl ɪɡ.zæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ɪkˌstɝː.nəl ɪɡ.zæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/UKan exam arranged by people outside a student's own school, college, or university
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Exams, tests & exercises
- achievement test
- AP
- cloze test
- drill
- entrance exam
- exercise
- flunk
- IB
- IELTS
- invigilate
- mock
- oral
- prelim
- resat
- resit
- road test
- script
- sit
- TOEFL
- trial
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Examples from literature
- Indeed, now that there was no external examination to look forward to, the pressure on the childmay be said to have automatically relaxed itself.
- The time given to religious instruction is, tomake a general statement, the only part of the session in which the children are being prepared for a formal external examination.