Ph.D. exams
The crossword clue "Ph.D. exams" is answered by ORALS, a 5-letter entry. Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
ORALS
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORALS answer page.
Used 8 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2011; first recorded in 1964. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ORALS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ORALS, most used first.
- Face-to-face exams - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Some exams - used 44 times, most recently in 2025
- Spoken exams - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Certain exams - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Paperless exams - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Exams - used 22 times, most recently in 1975
- Tough tests - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Spoken tests - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Verbal exams - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
- Ph.D. hurdles - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Some tests - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Face-to-face tests - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Unwritten tests - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
- Doctoral hurdles - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Paperless tests - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
- Pre-diploma hurdles - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Doctoral exams - used 9 times, most recently in 2016
- Unwritten exams - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tests. - used 8 times, most recently in 1975
- Thesis defenses - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Certain tests - used 7 times, most recently in 1989
- Rigorous exams - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- Some foreign language exams - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- They're all talk - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Exams - TESTS, used 118 times
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- Exams for would-be attys. - LSATS, used 18 times
- Aspiring attys.' exams - LSATS, used 9 times
- Exams for future docs - MCATS, used 9 times
- Exams for HS juniors - PSATS, used 9 times
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