placement test

American  

noun

Education.

1. a test to determine a student's level of ability in one or more subjects in order to place the student with others of the same approximate ability.

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Etymology

Origin of placement test

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

A couple of weeks after camp, Fonseca again found himself taking a placement test, this time for the community college.

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Some are adding summer camps like George Mason’s, which helped participants increase placement test scores by 59% on average.

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Its new placement test helps students find gaps and fill them in before taking it again, with up to four attempts.

From Seattle Times

A couple weeks after camp, Fonseca again found himself taking a placement test, this time for the community college.

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It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college.

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