The phrase "a qualifying test" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an assessment or examination that determines whether someone meets certain criteria or standards.
Example: "Before being accepted into the program, all candidates must pass a qualifying test to demonstrate their knowledge and skills."
Alternatives: "eligibility exam" or "assessment test".
Milburn's vice principal in charge of testing said the school used teacher recommendations, grades and a qualifying test to decide who would be admitted.
To make it as desperate as it must have been without sliding into melodrama is like a qualifying test for a good writer.
An appeals-court judge, one of her most controversial decisions affirmed a lower court's ruling that white firemen couldn't be promoted because not enough blacks had passed a qualifying test.
The number of students studying physics at A level — the second, or advanced, level of British secondary-school examinations, used as a qualifying test for university entry — dropped by about half, to just over 28,000 in 2005, from a peak of 55,728 in 1982, according to a study published in 2006 by Mr. Smithers and a colleague, Dr. Pamela Robinson.
For example, the Ricci case, where white firefighters were denied promotion because not enough of their black colleagues scored high enough marks in a qualifying test, was heard by not only the city of Hartford, where the firemen are based, but by 13 federal judges.
A dozen years ago on a Saturday morning, a father in Long Beach dropped off his son to take a qualifying test for an AP history class.
The next ORS launch, set to take place this fall, will be an important qualifying test for a new rocket called the Super Strypi.
But as Russia prepare for the crunch World Cup qualifying test against Portugal, Denisov has been a figure of controversy.
Accordingly, she said, she should not be barred from taking the qualifying test.
Even with an unprecedented $10 million recruiting campaign by the New York Police Department last year, only 15,000 people signed up to take the qualifying test.
They either have criminal charges against them, cannot pass the drug test or cannot pass the military qualifying test, which measures math and verbal proficiency.
