"cumulative exam" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an exam that covers material from multiple topics or sections of a course. For example, "The course requires a cumulative exam at the end of the semester that covers all of the material we have learned since the start of the course."
We determine that the first principal component has a positive correlation with the score of the final written cumulative exam.
Call it a comprehensive exam, call it a cumulative exam, or call it a qualifying exam, if you like.
For Ryan to graduate, the email said, he had to achieve a minimum score of 83 on a cumulative exam, or "block test".
Exams 1 and 2 occurred during the semester at the one-third and two-thirds points of the course, whereas exam 3 occurred during finals week, even though it was not a cumulative exam.
In my department we have cumulative exams every 2 months or so, each with six questions covering three different subject areas.
A common approach for dealing with these exams has been to include a "revision" (i.e., studying or cramming) period of a few weeks leading up to the high-stakes cumulative exams.
In England in particular, as of 2013, high-school students need to be able to remember content from up to 3 years back on cumulative exams (General Certificate of Secondary Education GCSEE) and A-level exams; see CIFE, 2012).
This is especially important for cumulative exams, in which you'll be tested over a lot of information.
Final course grades (A, B, C, D, or F on a 10-point grading scale), final course percentage (based on in-class exercises, three exams, and one cumulative final exam), and the final exam scores were used to assess the effects of study groups on student learning.
Student performance on the cumulative final exam was used to assess whether exam format affected student learning (final exams are not returned in this class, and none of the final exam questions had appeared on previous exams).
I used data from the four surveys (study behavior) and the cumulative final exam (learning outcomes) to test the predictions for this study.
