The phrase 'pure test' is grammatically correct and could be used in written English in some contexts, but it is not a very common phrase.
For example, you might use it as an indication of a control group in a scientific experiment: "The researchers tested the effectiveness of the drug on three groups of people - a placebo group, a pure test group and an experimental group."
The group sees its competitions as the more pure test.
Nicholls agrees that it is a myth that Kempton is a pure test of speed.
This was a pure test of skill in dealing with complex situations, unaffected by partners or opponents.
The Danish vote, Mr. Greetham said, "was a pure test of the political will to become part of the Franco-German vision of a large superstate".
It does, however, mimic its predecessor, last year's well-received Left 4 Dead, as a finely calibrated, pure test of teamwork, spatial awareness, reflexes, eye-hand coordination and, perhaps most important, the ability to stay cool under duress (if facing a dozen zombies who are trying to julienne you qualifies as duress).
But the risk it brings of cheating, the lack of reliability of scoring and the tendency to turn classrooms into pure test preparation centers all are reasons for concern about the overreliance on standardized tests as a measure of student achievement or teachers' and administrators' effectiveness.
A McKinsey report on car dealerships published earlier this year argued that new dealership formats — pure test-drive centers, small urban showrooms, pop-up stores, and more online selling — would mesh with consumer demand.
Getting these illusions is the purest test of stereoscopic vision.
In the purest test of reasoning, pupils were shown a pendulum and asked how to find out what affects the rate at which it swings.
"Bela Julesz's work really revolutionized the field, because the random-dot stereogram became a purer test for the study of stereoscopic vision," said Dr. Robert H. Wurtz, chief of the visual-motor integration section of the National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Md. "He was the first among us to establish the study of depth perception on a quantitative, scientific basis".
"The Keystone pipeline project is the purest test of whether the president is serious about doing something about climate change or not," the author Bill McKibben, whose 350.org group has led opposition to the project, told a few hundred protesters outside the White House.
