Test yourself

1. commencement

a) a professor at a college or university who is not a full, perma­nent member of the faculty;

2. associate professor

b) an occasion when all the students in a school meet together in a large auditorium, usually the school’s gym; there, stu­dents can hear special speakers, listen to concerts by school music groups, or learn new cheers for their sports teams;

3. counselor

c) the third highest rank in the faculty at a college or university, below associate professor and above instructor;

4. baccalaureate

d) the second highest rank in the faculty at a college or university, below professor and above assistant professor;

5. assistant professor

e) a religious service for the graduating class of a high school, col­lege, or university, held shortly before commencement; also a bachelor’s degree;

6. campus

f) a small booklet containing blank pages, used for taking essay-type exams in high school or college;

7. blue book

g) the school or college canteen;

8. cafeteria

h) the land and buildings that make up a school, college, or univer­sity;

9. class ring

i) a ring that students can buy with their high school or college symbol and initials on it, as well as the year of their graduation;

10. adjunct professor

j) the yearly ceremony at which new graduates receive their diplo­mas, and special awards are given out;

11. assembly

k) a school or college official who gives students advice on academic and career matters;

12. grade school

l) a rule about how late a student can return to a dorm at night, or how late guests may stay in a dorm room;

13. flunk

m) to not attend school or a particular class, especially to do some­thing that might be considered more fun than studying;

14. detention

n) an administrative officer in charge of a college or school within a university, for example the Dean of Arts and Sciences; a dean is usually a professor as well;

15. exchange student

o) a list of the students with the highest grades in a college or uni­versity, usually announced every semester or quarter;

16. faculty

p) a punishment given to a student who misbehaves, which con­sists of having to stay after school for a certain amount of time, or coming in to school on a Saturday, usually to do schoolwork;

17. dean’s list

q) a U.S. student who studies for a few months or a year in another country, while a student from the other country studies in the US;

18. dean

r) the members of the teaching staff at a college or university;

19. cut school/class

s) a slang term meaning to not pass a test or course;

20. curfew

t) another name for elementary school;

Part 2.

1. GRE

a) the period of study for an advanced degree after a student has earned a four-year undergraduate degree;

2. graduate school

b) the ceremony that marks the end of a person’s high school or college career; diplomas are handed out, and awards are given to students with special achievements;

3. graduation

c) Graduate Record Examination; the standardized test taken by college graduates who want to go to graduate school; it tests math, verbal, and analytical skills;

4. honor roll

d) the season of activities that takes place at high schools, colleges, and universities, when graduates of the school come back to visit;

5. junior year abroad

e) the school subject that covers topics such as cooking, nutrition, and hygiene, and also may cover other related topics, such as child development, family relationships, and consumer information; it is usually taken as an elective;

6. honor society

f) the class that high school students go to first thing in the morning, where attendance is taken and students are given any general information that they may need about school events, activities, rules, etc;

7. homecoming

g) a list of the students with the best grades in a high school, usu­ally announced every semester or quarter;

8. homeroom

h) an organization that students with high grades at a school may be invited to join;

9. LSAT

i) a year (usually the third year) spent studying at a uni­versity in another country;

10. magnet school

j) the graduate courses that a student takes to earn a law degree, or the part of a university that offers these courses;

11. home economics

k) Law School Admissions Test; the test taken by college graduates who want to go to law school once they have earned their bach­elor’s degree;

12. law school

l) a public school that offers special training that is not available in every school in the district; for example, a school may spe­cialize in computer science or music, and students throughout the district can attend special classes there for part of the day;

13. medical school

m) a test taken by a student who has missed a test for some reason;

14. parochial school

n) Medical College Admissions Test; the test taken by college gradu­ates who want to go to medical school once they have earned their bachelor’s degree;

15. makeup (test)

o) the graduate courses that a student takes to earn a medical degree, or the part of a university that offers these courses;

16. period

p) a type of pencil with a medium-soft lead, used for taking stan­dardized tests and tests that will be scored automatically by a machine;

17. play hooky

q) a private school owned by a religious organization;

18. No. 2 pencil

r) one of the units of class time that the school day in middle, junior, and high schools is divided into, usually fifty minutes;

19. pledge

s) to be exempted from taking a required college course while getting college credits for it, usually done by getting a good score on an AP test;

20. MCAT

t) a slightly old-fashioned term that means to not go to classes in order to do something more fun;

21. place out

u) to join a fraternity or sorority and promise to obey its rules;

Part 3.

1. prom

a) a student with a doctorate who is doing further research and study at a university;

2. full professor

b) the main administrative official in a school;

3. principal

c) the highest rank in the faculty at a college or university;

4. postdoctoral student

d) a formal dance held in the spring, considered one of the most important events in the high school social calendar;

5. recess

e) the Parent Teacher Association; a volunteer organization of parents and teachers who work together to improve the quality of education and educational facilities;

6. registration

f) Resident Assistant; an older college student, often a graduate student, who lives in a college dorm and is there to help students with problems and to make sure that dorm rules are followed;

7. review

g) the period of time in a school day when young children unalloyed to go outside to play or have their lunch;

8. skip school/class

h) the period at the beginning of a college or university quarter or semester when students choose, enroll in, and pay for the courses they want to take;

9. PTA

i) a review ses­sion is often led by the teacher who taught the course, and is meant to prepare students for the exam;

10. sorority

j) the student with the second-highest academic standing in a graduating class, who gives the welcoming speech in the gradu­ation ceremony;

11. RA

k) to not attend school or a particular class, especially to do some­thing that might be considered more fun than studying;

12. salutatorian

l) a traditionally all-female social organization for college stu­dents;

13. tenure

m) a high school student organization, made up of officers elected by the other students, who organize student activities and repre­sent student interests in school meetings;

14. substitute (teacher)

n) a building on a college campus where students can socialize, study, eat, etc;

15. student council

o) a period of the school day when a student does not have a class and can go to the library or another place in the building to do schoolwork;

16. valedictorian

p) a teacher who fills in for one who is absent or sick;

17. study hall

q) permanent job status earned by a professor at a college or uni­versity;

18. varsity

r) a lengthy written assignment, requiring some research, on a topic related to a high school or college course subject;

19. student union

s) the student with the highest academic standing in a graduating class, who gives the farewell speech in the graduation ceremony;

20. term paper

t) the main team that represents a school or college in sports competitions;