entrance

1. noun, the process of preparing for admission into a program; 2. attributive

1.
“Starting from the top down, Nancy Smith put me through entrance. We passed with honours, Sarah and I.”

2.
“I know they used to have entrance tests. Was that just for grade nine? You probably didn’t have to do that to go into grade twelve or eleven.”

“They used to send the kids to Kingston to do their tests for high school back then. Do you remember that?”
“They used to call them entrance exams? Yeah, and they used to publish the results too, didn’t they?”