Exam

The term exam can refer, in this encyclopedia:

• to one Physical exploration;
• to one Supplementary explorationpart of a medical examination;
• a blood testa chemical analysis of that body tissue, performed to know the health condition of an individual;
• a genetic testingan analysis of DNA, performed to know the predisposition (not the cause) of certain diseases;
• in education, a reviewan assessment of the intellectual or physical knowledge or skills of a student;

• A law (admitted by some countries of the European Union such as Spain) states that putting in a time of 33 hours weekly lectives more than 4 exams in high school or in other degrees of study is illegal for different reasons *
• to a driving test: see driver's license;
• in Catholic theology, to a examination of consciencethe need to bring to memory the sins committed before administering the sacrament of penance.