comprehensives
All-encompassing qualifying tests
Comprehensives are major examinations covering an entire field of study, typically required of graduate students before advancing to dissertation work.
Also called comps or qualifying exams: She spent six months preparing for her comprehensives.
In British education, comprehensives are comprehensive schools—secondary schools that admit students of all abilities rather than selecting by academic performance.
Language's structural rules
- secondaryLesser in rank
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
- eleven-plusUK secondary school selection exam
- selectiveChoosing with care
state · maintained · education · pupils · academies · streaming · GCSE · A-levels
Extent of inclusion
- policiesAdopted courses of action
- premiumsPayments for insurance coverage
- deductiblesPre-coverage personal payments
- protectionGuarding against harm
liability · collision · uninsured · underwriting · claims · auto · homeowners · bundled
Concluding tests or matches
- qualifyingMeeting required criteria
- oralsExaminations conducted aloud
- writtenComposed in text
- doctoralOf advanced academic study
graduate · prelims · candidacy · assessment · examination · testing · pass-fail · preparation
grammar
Language's structural rules
- secondaryLesser in rank
- BritishOf the United Kingdom
- eleven-plusUK secondary school selection exam
selective · state · maintained · education · pupils · academies · streaming · GCSE · A-levels · nonselective
coverage
Extent of inclusion
- policiesAdopted courses of action
- premiumsPayments for insurance coverage
- deductiblesPre-coverage personal payments
protection · liability · collision · uninsured · underwriting · claims · auto · homeowners · bundled · all-risk
finals
Concluding tests or matches
- qualifyingMeeting required criteria
- oralsExaminations conducted aloud
- writtenComposed in text
doctoral · graduate · prelims · candidacy · assessment · examination · testing · pass-fail · preparation · studying
- examsexam, test, quiz, final exam, midterm
- academiaprofessors, universities, graduation cap, biology department, professor
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
comprehensivesquizzes
Brief knowledge checks
unit tests · pop quizzes · chapter tests · midterms · spot checks
comprehensivesgrammar schools
Admission-by-exam secondary institutions
selective schools · public schools · independent schools · private schools · technical schools
- comprehensive examsQualifying doctoral examinations
- comprehensive listInventory missing nothing
- comprehensive planThorough strategy for everything
- comprehensive coveragePolicy covering all perils
- comprehensive insuranceNon-collision vehicle protection
- comprehensive schoolsSchools admitting all students regardless of ability
comprehensive, comprehensively, comprehensiveness, noncomprehensive