licensing exams

Credential verification tests

Licensing exams are tests required to practice certain professions—medicine, law, nursing, engineering, real estate.

They verify that candidates have met minimum competency standards before receiving official permission to work in a regulated field.

She spent months preparing for the bar exam and other licensing exams.

Also called licensure exams.

Opposites
credential status

licensing examslicense revocation

Formal withdrawal of permission

decertification · disbarment · license suspension · disciplinary proceedings

career stage

licensing examscontinuing education

Ongoing professional coursework after graduation

retirement · license renewal · recertification · career end · exit exams

formality of qualification

licensing examson-the-job training

Learning skills while employed

apprenticeship · practical experience · grandfather clause · mentorship · clinical hours

Family

exam, license

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G