Exams can be challenging, especially when you encounter unfamiliar abbreviations and acronyms. Understanding these terms is crucial for answering questions correctly and effectively. This list aims to simplify your exam experience by providing explanations for commonly used abbreviations, acronyms, and their full forms. Whether you’re preparing for a test or just curious about these terms, this resource will help you decode and comprehend exam-related language more easily.
Common Exam Abbreviations
- etc. – et cetera (and so forth)
- i.e. – id est (that is)
- e.g. – exempli gratia (for example)
- viz. – videlicet (namely)
- cf. – confer (compare)
- ibid. – ibidem (in the same place)
- et al. – et alii (and others)
- vs. – versus (against)
- N.B. – nota bene (note well)
- A.D. – Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord)
- B.C. – Before Christ
- Q.E.D. – Quod erat demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
- Q.E. – Quantum Energy
- A.M. – Ante Meridiem (before noon)
- P.M. – Post Meridiem (after noon)
- DNA – Deoxyribonucleic Acid
- UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- USA – United States of America
- EU – European Union
Exam Abbreviations, Acronyms, & Full Forms
1. A.E.: An Examination
2. A.O.: Administrative Officer
3. A.S.I.: Assistant Sub Inspector
4. A.S.M.: Actuarial Study Materials
5. A.T.E.P.: Accelerated Teacher Education Program
6. AA: Ability Answer
Read: Healthcare Related Abbreviations
7. AA: Access Arrangement
8. AA: Artificer Apprentice
9. AB: Accountant in Business
10. ABCE: Advanced Business Certificate Examination
11. ABCTE: American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence
12. ABFDE: American Board of Forensic Document Examiners
13. ABFM: American Board of Family Medicine
14. ABIME: American Board of Independent Medical Examiners
15. ABNAME: Advanced Borderless Network Account Manager exam
16. ABNASEE: Advanced Borderless Network Architecture Systems Engineer Exam
17. ABNFEE: Advanced Borderless Network Field Engineer exam
18. ABNN: American Board of Neuroscience Nursing
19. AC: Admission Certificate
20. AC: Admit Card
21. ACA: Adobe Certified Associates
22. ACA: Alfresco Certified Administrator
23. ACA: Apple Certified Associate
24. ACA: Avaya Certified Associate
25. ACC: Army Cadet College
Read: Running Abbreviations
26. ACCCM: Avaya Contact Center Control Manager
27. ACCP: Aruba Certified Clearpass Professional
28. ACCS: Avaya Contact Centre Select
29. ACDS: Avaya Certified Design Specialist
30. ACDX: Aruba-Certified Design Expert
31. ACE: Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination
32. ACE: Akershus Cardiac Examination
33. ACE: Anal Cancer Examination
34. ACE: Assessment, Certification and Examination
35. ACE: Acceleration Challenge Exam
36. ACE: Accredited Configuration Engineer
37. ACE: Addiction Counseling Exam
38. ACE: Adobe Certified Exam
39. ACEC: Ambedkar Competitive Examination Center
40. ACEE: Association of Combined Entrance Examination
41. ACET: Actuarial Common Entrance Test
42. ACET: Ateneo College Entrance Test
43. ACF: Assistant Conservator of Forests
44. ACHDS: Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist
45. ACHE: Advanced Certified Hospice Executive
46. ACIO: Alien Contact Intelligence Organization
47. ACIO: Assistant Central Intelligence Officers
48. ACIS: Avaya Certified Implementation Specialist
49. ACIS: Avaya Certified Integration Specialist
50. ACM: Advanced Clinical Medicine
51. ACMA: Apple Certified Media Administrator
52. ACMA: Aruba-Certified Mobility Associate
53. ACMP: Aruba-Certified Mobility Professional
54. ACMS: Army College of Medical Science
55. ACMT: Advanced Clinical Massage Therapist
56. ACMT: Apple Certified Macintosh Technician
57. ACMX: Aruba Certified Mobility Expert
58. ACN: Army College of Nursing
59. ACP: Agile Certified Practitioner
60. ACP: Alternative Control Path
61. ACP: Analyst Cum Programmer
62. ACP: Apple Certified Professional
63. ACP: Autodesk Certified Professional
64. ACP: Avaloq Certified Professional
65. ACPT: Apple Certified Portable Technician
66. ACs: Admission Certificates
67. ACs: Apple Certified Specialist
68. ACs: Assistant Commandants
69. ACSA: Apple Certified System Administrator
70. ACSA: Avaya Certified Solutions Architect
71. ACSE: Avaya Certified Solution Expert
72. ACSP: Apple Certified Support Professional
73. ACSS: Avaya Certified Support Specialist
74. ACSSS: American Council of State Savings Supervisors
75. ADC: Alcohol and Drug Counselor
76. ADEO: Assistant Development Extension Officer
77. AE: Annual Examinations
78. AEC: Authorized Examination Center
79. AESD: Accelerated Examination Support Document
80. AFDE: Association of Forensic Document Examiners
81. AIBE: All India Bar Exams
82. AICE: Amity Institute for Competitive Examinations
83. AIDP: Accenture Intelligent Digital Platform
84. AIEE: All India Entrance Examination
85. AIEEA: All India Entrance Examinations for Admission
86. AIEEA: All India Entrance Examination for Agriculture
87. AIEED: All India Entrance Examination for Design
88. AIEEE: All-India Engineering Entrance Examination
89. AIME: American Invitational Mathematics Examination
90. AIMEE: All India Medical Entrance Examinations
91. AIPGMEE: All India Post Graduate Medical Entrance Examination
92. AISEE: All India Scholarship Entrance Exam
93. AISSCE: All India Senior School Certificate Examination
94. AISSE: All India Secondary School Examination
95. AIYSEE: All India Youth Scholarship Entrance Examination
96. ALE: Architect Licensure Examination
97. AMEB: Australian Music Examinations Board
98. AMPAI: Association of Minority Professional Academic Institutes
99. ANMTST: Auxiliary Nurse Midwifery Training Selection Test
100. ANTC: Advanced National Technical Certificate
101. AO: Accounting Officer
102. AO: Admin Officers
103. AO: Agricultural Officer
104. APE: Architectural Practice Examination
105. APJEE: Arunachal Pradesh Joint Entrance Examination
106. APRJC: Andhra Pradesh Residential Junior College
107. APSCSCL: Andhra Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation Limited
108. AQA: Assessment and Qualifications Alliance
109. ARE: Architect Registration Examination
110. AS: Advance Subsidiary
111. AS: Advanced Supplementary
112. ASFDE: Australasian Society of Forensic Document Examiners
113. ASOC: Amateur Station Operators Certificate
114. ASQDE: American Society of Questioned Document Examiners
115. ATC: Accounting Technician Certificate
116. ATS: Accounting Technician Scheme
117. ATS: Admission Test Series
118. ATSWA: Accounting Technicians Scheme, West Africa
119. ATT: Authorization to Test
120. B.C.E.C.E.: Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination
121. B.C.S.: Bengal Civil Service
122. BBOSE: Bihar Board of Open Schooling and Examination
123. BCE: Business & Computing Examinations
124. BCECEB: Bihar Combined Entrance Competitive Examination Board
125. BCSE: Bhutan Civil Service Examinations
126. BCSEA: Bhutan Council for School Examinations and Assessment
127. BDAE: Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination
128. BEC: Botswana Examinations Council
129. BECE: Basic Education Certification Examination
130. BECE: Bioscience Engineering Career Event
131. BEWE: Basic Erosive Wear Examination
132. BF: Borderline Fail
133. BFAD: Bachelor of Fashion Apparel Design
134. BGCSE: Botswana General Certificate of Secondary Education
135. BIE: Board of Intermediate Education
136. BIE: Board of Intermediate Examination
137. BIMC: Blessed Information-Memory-Concentration
138. BLEPT: Board Licensure Examinations for Professional Teachers
139. BLT: Basic Law Test
140. BoE: Board of Examinations
141. BOLE: Board of Law Examiners
142. BOPEE: Board of Professional Entrance Examination
143. BPE: Basic Periodontal Exam
144. BPEE: Board of Professional Entrance Examination
145. BPT: Board for Professional Teachers
146. BRO: Branch Recruiting Offices
147. BRS: Basic Radiation Safety
148. BSE: Board of Secondary Education
149. BSE: Breast self-examination
150. BSE: Breeding Soundness Examination
151. BSEB: Bihar School Examination Board
152. BSEO: Board of Secondary Education Odisha
153. BSER: Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan
154. BU: Bhavnagar University
155. BU: Bilaspur University
156. C.D.S.: Combined Defence Services
157. C.E.A.: Costruzioni Elettromeccaniche Annettoni
158. C.L.E.P.: College Level Examination Program
159. C.P.E.: Certificate of Proficiency in English
160. C.P.E.: Computer-Assisted Testing
161. C.P.E.: Computer Adaptive Testing
162. C.P.E.: Computer Aptitude Test
163. C.P.E.: Creative Ability Test
164. C.P.E.: Creative Aptitude Test
165. C.S.E.: Certificate of Secondary Education
166. CAPE: Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination
167. CASE: Combined Administrative Services Examination
168. CAT: Computer Assisted Testing
169. CAT: Career Aptitude Test
170. CAT: Certificate in Accounting Technician
171. CAT: College Admission Test
172. CAT: Combined Aptitude Test
173. CAT: Common Aptitude Test
174. CBE: Clinical Breast Examination
175. CBE: Computer-Based Examinations
176. CBE: Credit-by-Examination
177. CBEE: Combined Biotechnology Entrance Exam
178. CBIP: Certified Business Intelligence Professional
179. CBS: Core Banking Services
180. CBSE: Central Board of Secondary Examination
181. CBSN: Constructing Basic Security Network
182. CBT: Computer Based Testing
183. CCA: Certified Coding Associate
184. CCCP: Certified Cloud Computing Professional
185. CCE: Comprehensive Clinical Examination
186. CCEA: Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment
187. CCME: Canadian Council of Massotherapeutic Examiners
188. CCSE: Cognitive Capacity Screening Examination
189. CCSE: Combined Civil Service Examination
190. CCSLC: Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence
191. CDE: Certified Document Examiner
192. CDFE: Comprehensive Diabetic Foot Exam
193. CDS: combined-defence-services
194. CDSE: Combined Defense Service Exam
195. CDT: Construction Documents Technologist
196. CE: Certifying Examination
197. CE: Clinical Examination
198. CE: Composition Examination
199. CE: Comprehensive Examination
200. CE: Consultative Examinations
201. CE: Course Examination
202. CEDA: Cross-Examination Debate Association
203. CEE: Combined Entrance Examination
204. CEE: Commissioner of Entrance Examination
205. CEE: Common Entrance Exam
206. CEEB: College Entrance Examination Board
207. CET: College Entrance Test
208. CIWGC: Children of Indian Workers in Gulf Countries
209. CWT: Certified Water Technologist
210. D.S.P.: Deputy Superintendent of Police
211. DSE: Direct Sales Executive
212. ESP: Early Ship Program
213. FG: Fundamentals of Geology
214. GOOGLE: Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth
215. GSSSB: Gujarat Subordinate Service Selection Board
216. GTA: Gynecological Teaching Associate
217. JEE: Joint Entrance Examination
218. KSDNEB: Karnataka State Diploma in Nursing Examination Board
219. LCT: Language Comprehensive Test
220. LO: Law Officer
221. MC: Multiple-Choice
222. MCS: Multimedia Communications Server
223. MTSE: Maharashtra Talent Search Examination
224. OEQ: Open-Ended Questions
225. P.C.: Police Constable
226. P.E.T.: Physical Efficiency Test
227. P.E.T.: Product Authorization
228. PA: Postal Assistant
229. PCAP: Professional Criminologist Association of the Philippines
230. QP: Question Paper
231. SLEEE: State Level Engineering Entrance Examinations
232. TMO: Telegraphic Money Order
233. VSC: Video Spectral Comparator
234. XAT: Xaviers Admission Test
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