A comprehensive examination (or comprehensive exam or exams), often abbreviated as `comps,` is a specific type of examination that must be completed by graduate students in some disciplines and courses of study. At some institutions it is known as a preliminary examination and abbreviated as `prelims`, general examinations and abbreviated as ...
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comprehensive noun an intensive examination testing a student`s proficiency in some special field of knowledge; `she took her comps in English literature`
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