Exam vs Viva - What's the difference?
exam | viva |
(informal) especially when meaning'' test ''or in compound terms.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support ).
To cheer, applaud
* 1841 , Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar, A winter in the Azores, and a summer at the baths of the Furnas
* 1859 , The Atlantic Monthly
* 1857 , George Payne R James, Leonora d'Orco
(label) To subject to an examination of this kind.
* 1931 , Henry Sanderson Furniss Sanderson, Memories of sixty years
* 1972 , The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
* 2009 , Gianni Paganini, Jose Raimundo Maia Neto, Renaissance Scepticisms
As nouns the difference between exam and viva
is that exam is form of Shortened form|examination|lang=en especially when meaning test or in compound terms.viva is an oral examination, typically for an academic qualification.As an interjection viva is
long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).As a verb viva is
to cheer, applaud.exam
English
Noun
(en noun)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.