entrance examination

基本解釋

If you are determined to make the grade in the entrance examination, you must work extra hard.
如果你決心要在入學考試中成功，你必須加倍努力學習。
Official statistics indicate most provinces in the country witnessed a declining number of high school graduates attending this year's national college entrance examination.
官方數(shù)據(jù)顯示，今年我國大部分省份蓡加高考人數(shù)都較往年大幅下降。
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But to get into a university to pursue this path, she must first run the gauntlet known as "Gaokao," a grueling university entrance examination given every summer across the Asian nation.
爲了進入一所能追夢的大學，她必須經(jīng)歷“高考”的試鍊，這是亞洲每年夏季都有的競爭殘酷的大學入學考試。

The College-Level Examination Program, run by the College Board (the institution that commissions the SAT entrance test), allows students to study on their own, then take a competency test in one of 33 subjects and get college credit for passing.
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