ADJ
- demanding, difficult, gruelling
- easy, simple
- fair, good, objective
- This type of exam does not provide a fair test of the student's knowledge
- listening, oral, practical, written
- cloze, multiple-choice
- placement
- He scored well in the placement test and was put in the most advanced class
- achievement, aptitude, endurance, intelligence, IQ, language, memory, mental, proficiency, spelling
- The recruits were put through a week of gruelling endurance tests
- driving
- screen
- Three actors out of a hundred were chosen from the screen test
VERB + TEST
- do, sit (for), take
- I took my driving test last week
- pass
- fail
- give, set
- administer
- mark
TEST + NOUN
- result
- conditions
- As a final practice for the exam, they had to write two essays under test conditions
- paper, questions
PREP
- in a/the ~
- Some of the questions in the history test were rather difficult
- ~ in
- a test in mathematics
- ~ on
- a test on the French Revolution
ADJ
- exhaustive, extensive, rigorous, stringent, thorough
- statistical
- empirical, experimental
- field, laboratory
- successful
- negative, positive
- medical
- screening
- screening tests for cancer
- diagnostic
- forensic
- Forensic tests showed that the man had been poisoned
- eye, sight
- hearing
- blood, DNA, skin, urine
- dope, drug/drugs
- fitness
- breath, breathalyser
- smear
- The government has launched a campaign advising women of the need for regular smear tests
- HIV
- pregnancy
- personality, psychological, psychometric
- lie-detector, polygraph
- means
- flight, road, safety
- atomic, nuclear
- alpha, beta
- The revolutionary new system goes into beta test this month
QUANT
- number, series
- She underwent a series of blood tests
VERB + TEST
- have, undergo
- do,
- use
- The test used in detecting the disease carries its own risks
- fail
- Three athletes were sent home after failing drugs tests
TEST + VERB
- take place
- confirm sth, indicate sth, reveal sth, show sth
- The urine test showed some sort of infection
- prove negative/positive
- come into force
- The new safety test came into force last month
- be designed to
- a test designed to detect bowel cancer
TEST + NOUN
- result
- a negative/positive test result
- data
- conditions
- The machine refused to perform properly under test conditions
- bed
- The company is using the university data library as a test bed for its new software
- site
- protesters at nuclear test sites
- facility
- drive, flight, run
- He's taken the car out on a test run
- driver, pilot
- aircraft, car
- trial
- The new drink went down well in the test trials
- methods, procedures
- system
- performance
- subject
- equipment, instruments, kit, machine
- samples, substances
- programme, schedule
- phase, stage
- The software is still at the test stage
- session
- Subjects had to attend ten test sessions on different days
- certificate
- The vehicle did not have a current test certificate at the time of the accident
- case
- This was the first action taken by a cancer sufferer against a tobacco company, and was seen as a test case
PREP
- ~ for
- a test for diabetes
- ~ on
- a test on the engine
ADJ
- good
- critical, crucial, key, real, supreme, true, ultimate, vital
- a real test of character
- serious, severe, stiff, tough
- simple
- objective
- subjective
- political
VERB + TEST
- pose
- The calls for tax reform pose a severe test for the government
- put sb/sth to
- The latest pay dispute has really put her management skills to the test
- face
- The new prime minister is facing his toughest political test so far
PHRASES
- the acid test (= a way of carry out, conduct, perform, run deciding whether sth is successful or true)
- Whether he would accept a pay cut would be the acid test of his loyalty to the company
- stand the test of time
- Whether this new technology will stand the test of time remains to be seen
ADV
- adequately, properly
- The product had not been adequately tested before being put on the market
- rigorously
- extensively
- fully, exhaustively, thoroughly
- regularly, routinely
- You should test your brakes regularly
- directly
- empirically, experimentally
- the importance of empirically tested research
- formally
- successfully
- The exercise successfully tested the procedures for dealing with a serious oil spillage
- clinically, dermatologically
- out
- a good way to test out his hypothesis
VERB + TEST
- decide to
- We decided to test the theory experimentally
- attempt to, seek to, try to
- be designed to, be intended to
- be used to
- be difficult to
- It is difficult to test a potential cure when a disease is ill-defined
PREP
- for
- Squeeze the fruit to test for ripeness
- on
- We only sell products that have not been tested on animals
PHRASES
- have sth tested
- I'm having my eyes tested this week
- test negative/ positive
- Two of the athletes tested positive for illegal drugs
- test sth to the limit
- The training tested his body to the very limit
- tried and tested
- tried and tested techniques
ADV
- seriously, severely, sorely
- Neither goalkeeper was seriously tested in a rather poor match. There were times when my temper was sorely tested