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Probation vs Examination - What's the difference?

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Probation is a related term of examination.


As nouns the difference between probation and examination

is that probation is a period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance while examination is the act of examining.

probation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may easily be removed for poor performance
  • You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
  • A type of sentence where convicted criminals are allowed to continue living in the community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions
  • He got two years probation for robbery.
  • (archaic) The act of testing; proof
  • * 1661 , , page 20,
  • And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
  • * , lines 148-156,
  • And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation .

    Derived terms

    * probationary * probation officer * academic probation

    examination

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of examining.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • Particularly, an inspection by a medical professional to establish the extent and nature of any sickness or injury.
  • A formal test involving answering written or oral questions with no or limited access to text books or the like.
  • Derived terms

    * * bar examination * clinical examination * cross-examination * cross examination * direct examination * exam * examination-in-chief * final examination * physical examination * re-examination * self-examination