Examination
Examination , noun
[Latin examinatio: compare French examination.]
1.
The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
2.
A process prescribed or assigned for testing qualification; as, the examination of a student, or of a candidate for admission to the bar or the ministry.
He neglected the studies,... stood low at the examinations.
Collocations (3)
Examination in chief or Direct examination (Law) , that examination which is made of a witness by a party calling him.
Cross-examination , that made by the opposite party.
Reexamination or Re-direct examination (Law) , that questioning of a witness at trial made by the party calling the witness, after, and upon matters arising out of, the cross-examination; also called informally re-direct.