The phrase "start a test" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the beginning of a test or exam. For example, "The teacher told the students to start a test."
I had an essay to start, a test coming up.
"We simply couldn't or wouldn't expect our players to be emotionally ready to start a Test," Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland told the BBC.
Of even greater potential import, Intel plans to start a test in Texas in a few months that will use a combination of wireless technologies, including Wi-Fi, to bring broadband Internet connections directly to homes.
The McDonald's Corporation said it found the call center idea interesting enough to start a test with three stores near its headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill., with different software than that used by Mr. Bigari.
Last week, he said the agency would start a test program this fall of a "risk-based, intelligence-driven" security system that would provide preapproved passengers with boarding passes encoded with personal identification information, allowing them to use special checkpoint lanes in which procedures would be "expedited".
Ashish Rangnekar graduated Chicago Booth last year with the idea to start a test prep application.
It will also start a trial test in the US thanks to the support of the Henry Pincus Foundation.
In the United States, Oregon recently started a test program involving 5,000 cars that will charge drivers 1.5 cents per mile driven.
Since the interlock can't be turned off or differentiate between users, every time a car is started, a test is required.
JOHN KATZMAN was 22 when he started a test preparation service out of his parents' kitchen on Central Park West in 1981.
Those who refused prior to starting a test or those who said no to a test component were assigned as missing data.
