🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

模擬試験

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mogishiken

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Practice test/ˈpræk.tɪs tɛst/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼は来週の入学試験のために模擬試験を受けた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An examination administered under conditions similar to a real test, designed to help students prepare for the actual assessment.

    "She took a practice test online to see how well she would score on the college entrance exam."
  2. 2

    An exercise or trial used to evaluate one's proficiency or readiness in a specific skill or subject.

    "The pilot completed a practice test in the flight simulator before the official evaluation."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'practice', derived from the Late Latin 'practica' and Greek 'praktikē' meaning 'concerned with action or art', with 'test', originating from the Latin 'testum' meaning 'an earthen pot' used for assaying precious metals. Together as a compound noun, it emerged in modern educational terminology during the mid-20th century to describe preparatory examinations modeled on official assessments.

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