Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

matriculation examination

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.64 in modern English

Syllables: ma-tric-u-la-tion ex-am-i-na-tion
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

9

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An examination which to pass is required for candidates to enter a country’s academic education system or kinds of career courses therein, nowadays (since the later 20th-century in developing countries) a school leaving certificate concluding secondary education en masse.

Example Sentences

"Outline of Proposed Regulations—Matriculation Examination.—All pupils intending to be candidates for degrees or diplomas in arts and science, law, civil engineering, or medicine and surgery, shall pass a matriculation examination, of which the standard shall be the present junior scholarship standard of the Council of Education; except in the case of pupils from the Martiniere, Parental Academy, and similar Institutions, for whom translations from and into Latin and Greek, if the candidates prefer them, shall be substituted for vernacular translations. No candidate shall be allowed to matriculate until he has completed his fifteenth year."

Inflected Forms

matriculation examinations (plural)

Synonyms

higher education entrance qualification entry qualification into higher education

Questions

What does matriculation examination mean?: An examination which to pass is required for candidates to enter a country’s academic education system or kinds of career courses therein, nowadays (since the later 20th-century in developing countries) a school leaving certificate concluding secondary education en masse.

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