Resit examinations

1. What is resit exam?
2. What does it mean to resit?
3. What is the difference between a resit and a retake?
4. Is it re sit or resit?

What is resit exam?

Definition of 'resit'

If someone resits a test or examination, they take it again, usually because they failed the first time. [British] This year, Jim is resitting the exams he failed. [

What does it mean to resit?

: a sitting (as of a legislature) for a second time : another sitting.

What is the difference between a resit and a retake?

As nouns the difference between resit and retake

is that resit is an examination taken for a second time, after first failing while retake is a scene that is filmed again, or a picture that is photographed again.

Is it re sit or resit?

verb (used with or without object), re·sat [ree-sat], re·sit·ting. to retake (a test or examination).