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examinee

UK/ɪɡˌzæmɪˈniː/US/ɪɡˌzæməˈni/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — examine sits at #2,499Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: examinees

An examinee is somebody sitting a test. Instructions for the examinee.

The word appears almost only on official papers about the exam itself. An examinee is identified by number rather than name, so the marking stays blind.

Definitions of examinee

  1. 1nounexamineeSomebody sitting a test.B2

    “Every examinee was given the same twenty minutes of reading time.”

examinee is a person.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    examino

  2. Old French

    examiner

  3. Middle English

    examinen

  4. English

    examine

  5. English, today

    examinee

From examine + -ee. examine comes from Middle English examinen, examenen, from Old French examiner, from Latin examino.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

examinee in the wild

  • A computerized classification test (CCT) refers to a Performance Appraisal System that is administered by computer for the purpose of classifying examinees.

    Computerized classification test

  • The results of the analysis might look like an examinee cheated, but the ability to prove it by returning to when the test was administered is not possible.

    Person-fit analysis

  • All examinees that take the test are given one of the two forms.

    Linear-on-the-fly testing

  • If this exam is high volume, meaning that there is a large number of examinees, the security of the examination could be in jeopardy.

    Linear-on-the-fly testing

  • A test score is a piece of information, usually a number, that conveys the performance of an examinee on a test.

    Test score

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the examino family

examine

examinee — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others