How do you say EXAMEN SUPLETORIO in English?
Darn! I wonder if there's a Make Up exam for this Make up exam! |
I remember that long ago I asked my distinguished and knowledgeable colleagues of that time to enlighten me and tell me the right English word for what we know in Ecuador as EXAMEN SUPLETORIO or EXAMEN DE RECUPERACION.
After hearing Recovery exam or Supplemenary test and even Supletory exam, I was not convinced so I decided to go to a higher authority and looked up one of those encyclopedic dictionaries from Oxford or Cambridge university (these were the pre-browser times) and found the right expression is MAKE UP EXAM which is taken when an exam has been missed or when a student needs to change one score with a more favorable one.
The British say RECUPERATION EXAM which is perhaps more practical since to some people the term Make Up is confusing. Make-up is the word for the wearing of cosmetics. There are Make-up tests which are oriented to future Make-up artists.
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Thank you.!
I didn’t know that Examen de recuperación is known as make up exam, interesting information to be added to the vocabulary!
That's cool, great expression, so I agree with it is a little confusing with cosmetics. So, in that case the best advice is to try to do all test and don't fall it because it is sad to do an make up exam and failed.
I think that this blog helps us to how to teach some words or expressions in Spanish that couldn't exist in English.I hope we could learn something new with the pass of the time.
It's incredible how we can learn new things about the English language when there's just a tiny doubt.
I like when words/phrases have different meanings which can be used in a bunch of diverse contexts. It's also interesting to know that "make-up" can be used in a lot of ways to express different ideas. Thanks for this helpful info!👌
¡wow!
It is incredible to see how a phrase that is usually used more in a single context, we are realizing that it can be used in a totally different context. This kind of information is really useful Mr. Bermúdes, thank you very much.
It is a very interesting information which I did not know that there was a lot of confusion about this expression. Now I know the ways to say Examen Supletorio and it is cool.
Thanks for the helpful information.
!Wow¡ it's interesting to learn new things, because I knew that ''make up'' has different uses, but I didn't know that we can use it to do an exam.
Regards