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  2. Comprehensive - Wikipedia

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    Comprehensive may refer to: Comprehensive layout, the page layout of a proposed design as initially presented by the designer to a client. Comprehensive school, a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. Comprehensive examination, an exam taken in some countries by graduates.

  3. Comprehensive examination - Wikipedia

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    Shimer College students taking a comprehensive exam, 1966.. In higher education, a comprehensive examination (or comprehensive exam or exams), often abbreviated as "comps", is a specific type of examination [1] that must be completed by graduate students in some disciplines and courses of study, and also by undergraduate students in some institutions and departments.

  4. Wikipedia:Wikipedia is comprehensive - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia is, first and foremost, an encyclopedia, and as such, its primary goal is to be a fully comprehensive and informative reference work; that is, it does not purposefully omit (i.e. suppress or censor) non-trivial, verifiable, encyclopedically formatted information on notable subjects.

  5. What is comprehensive car insurance? - AOL

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    Comprehensive coverage is optional if you are not financing or leasing your vehicle, and some drivers drop comprehensive coverage if their car is more than 10 years old. As a vehicle ages, its ...

  6. Comprehensive planning - Wikipedia

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    A comprehensive plan has significant benefits for a whole community as it helps to identify, define and protect important existing resources while also providing a blueprint for future growth that ensures equity and resilience for all stakeholders. [8] Such a plan provides for common goals and community consensus as opposed to "spot zoning".

  7. Comprehensive school - Wikipedia

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    Comprehensive schools provide an entitlement curriculum to all children, without selection whether due to financial considerations or attainment. A consequence of that is a wider ranging curriculum, including practical subjects such as design and technology and vocational learning, which were less common or non-existent in grammar schools.

  8. Compendium - Wikipedia

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    The entry on the word 'compendious' in the Online Etymology Dictionary says "concise, abridged but comprehensive", "concise compilation comprising the general principles or leading points of a longer 'system or work '". Its etymology comes from a Medieval Latin use (com+pendere), literally meaning to weigh together. [2]

  9. Comprehensive high school - Wikipedia

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    Comprehensive high schools are the most popular form of public high schools around the world, designed to provide a well-rounded education to its students, as opposed to the practice in some places in which examinations are used to sort students into different high schools for different populations.