placement test
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of placement test
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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One chatbot gave her the idea to develop a Spanish-language placement test to sell on a website for classroom resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
A couple of weeks after camp, Fonseca again found himself taking a placement test, this time for the community college.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
You can start on whatever unit you want to, but there doesn’t appear to be any kind of comprehensive placement test.
From The Verge ● Aug. 26, 2022
But the student had learned enough to get a score on the University of Texas at Austin placement test exempting her from all university math courses through the second year of calculus.
From Washington Post ● May 22, 2022
The building didn’t look so big when I’d come in to register and take my placement test, but now that it was filled with students, I felt as if I were just a speck.
From "The Red Umbrella" by Christina Gonzalez
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