Tests and examinations

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Someone who teaches

• a university teacher/a professor (AmE)

• a teacher of English/ an English teacher

• assistant teacher/instructor, a senior teacher/instructor

• good, poor, bad, excellent, experienced, mediocre, born, superior, great teacher

• tutor - someone who gives lessons to just one student or a small group of students

e.g. They hired a private tutor to help Mary with her French.

• The basis of tuition in Oxford is the tutorial for which students are re­quired to meet with their tutor once or twice a week, individually or perhaps, with one or two other students.

• A tutor in Cambridge is called an adviser.

• lecturer (BrE) - someone who teaches at university or college

e.g. a lecturer in World Politics

• professor - a university teacher of the highest rank in Britain, any uni­versity teacher in the USA who has a higher degree such as a Ph. D.: a linguistics professor

• assistant professor

e.g. He's a professor of biology at Cambridge.

• faculty (AmE)/teaching/academic staff (BrE) - all the teachers work­ing at a certain school/university

Dean

Assistant dean

Department chair man

President of the University

academic vice-president

student government

• quiz

• a test - а set; of spoken or written questions or practical activities, which are intended to find out how much someone knows about a subject or skill

• a spelling/vocabulary/grammar/biology, etc. test

• an oral/written test, multiple choice test, essay test, a pass-fail test, an end-of-term test, a test in Literature, a test on the use of articles

• to give smb a test/to test smb on smth., to retest smb on smth

• to take a test on the term's work/in History

• to have a test on smth

• to revise for a test

• to pass a test, to fail a test

• test-paper, to mark test-papers

• student's record book, to sign smb's record book

• examination (formal)/ехаm - an important test that you do at the end of a course of study or at the end of the school year

e.g. How did you do in your exams? Students are not allowed to talk during the examination.

• French/biology/history, etc. exam, an exam in Psychology

• entrance exam, an oral/written exam, school-leaving exams

• graduate/final exam

• final (singular) - an important exam that is taken at the end of a set of classes in the US

e.g. I have a final in biology tomorrow.

• finals (plural) - the last exams that you take at the end of a university course in the UK

e.g. During my finals, I was revising till 3 o'clock in the morning most days.

• to take/sit for an examination - to do a test or exam

• to retake an exam (a retake)

• to pass an examination - to achieve a good enough standard to be successful

e.g. Only 30% of students who took the exam passed it. "Did you pass?" "Yes, I got an A."

• to scrape through an exam

e.g. He scraped through his history paper.

• to fail/flunk (AmE coll.) an exam

e.g. I failed my French exam two times. He thought he was going to flunk History but he got a C.

• to flunk smb

• to study (AmE)/revise (BrE) for an exam

• to be examined in, to be re-examined in

• examiner, an examinee

• examining board

• transcript - an official list of all courses taken by a student in the USA at a school or college showing the final grade received for each course, with definitions of the various grades given at the institution