gateway to a career etc.

think / meditate / consider / expect / reflect / prepare / make up one's mind / imagine / contrive

examination, exam, test / quiz

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

graduation examination

practical test

a mock exam

(law) a bar examination