Did you give the ACC exam last year?
Here, the word "give" sounds absurd. Is there some word(s) for replacement for give or maybe some word which is specially meant to be used for exam ?
Can you suggest a couple of such words?
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Sign up to join this communityDid you give the ACC exam last year?
Here, the word "give" sounds absurd. Is there some word(s) for replacement for give or maybe some word which is specially meant to be used for exam ?
Can you suggest a couple of such words?
If you study for an exam, then sit down and answer the questions, then you are taking the exam. I’ve also heard “sit an exam”.
If you write down exam questions, then hand them out to your students, then you are giving the exam.
If you watch over students taking an exam, you are proctoring the exam.
If by "give" you mean "handed out the exam and watched while the students took it" then it's perfectly idiomatic.
Our History teacher gave us a pop quiz this morning, but I think I did OK.
Otherwise you can say administer a test, although this is more formal, and more common with standardized, official tests (such as whatever the ACC is). You would not normally write a test you administer, but only oversee the testing process.
Proctor similarly means to administer a test, although it usually is applied to the authorities in the room while the test is being taken. Someone who administers a test might manage the group of people who proctor that test.
For the context of a teacher writing an exam for their students to sit, the word "set" seems to work fine.
I set my students a test on World History.
Our maths teacher set us a hard test.
(This might be British English specific, but I see no reason why it wouldn't be understood any way.)