matriculation examination
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matriculation examination (plural matriculation examinations)
- 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.
- 1846, “Report of the Council of Education: Proposed Plan of the University of Calcutta”, in General Report on Public Instruction in the Lower Provicnes of the Bengal Presidency, for 1845–1846, Calcutta: W. Ridsdale, Military Orphan Press, page 12:
- 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.
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