The phrase "a practical test of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an assessment or evaluation that is designed to measure the effectiveness or applicability of something in real-world situations.
Example: "The course includes a practical test of the skills learned throughout the semester."
Alternatives: "an applied assessment of" or "a hands-on evaluation of".
It did not require a vast military outlay, and could stand as a practical test of the girl's mission.
In the meantime, a practical test of how courts handle security sensitive information came before a high court judge, Mr Justice Mitting.
Remuneration for the position is listed as "competitive", but applicants are warned that a "practical test of emoji knowledge/skills may be given".
I think the lessons of history -- above all, the history of the perestroika era, which was, if I may say so, a practical test of humanist approaches to the transformation of society -- allow us to give a positive answer to this question".
Perhaps, suggests Mr Ballout, this is because al-Jazeera tends to attract the kind of people who are frustrated at having no outlet for their opinions.It so happens that a practical test of what Arab audiences really think is now under way.
So the trial of Laurent Fabius, a former prime minister, Georgina Dufoix, his former social-affairs minister, and Edmond Hervé, a former health minister, charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence as part of a long-running scandal about HIV-contaminated blood, was both a symbolic and a practical test of the Court of Justice of the Republic, assembled for the first time for this purpose.
In doing so, we give a practical test for robustness of heteroclinic cycles within any particular context and demonstrate it in practice for several examples.
Preliminary experimental results showed, for the first time, the implementation of a practical test to detect these algae in gill tissue extracted from mussels challenged under laboratory conditions.
The proposed methodology was verified by applying a practical test case of decommissioning scenarios using the assessment system in virtual decommissioning environment.
Then I took a practical test that consisted of a 15-minute amble through a flat rural area.
All groups performed a practical test at the day of the course.
