Meaning & use
advanced student
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Meanings
nouncountable
A learner who has already studied a subject for a long time and works at a high level.
Grammar: Countable: use 'an advanced student' for one person and 'advanced students' for more than one.
Patterns
- an advanced student of something
- an advanced student in a class
- advanced students at a school
Maria is an advanced student of physics and now reads research papers on her own.
The course is designed for advanced students who already speak Japanese fluently.
Advanced students can choose to write a longer final project.
nouncountable
A student placed in the top-level class or group of a school or language program.
Grammar: Often used in the plural to mean the whole top group: 'the advanced students have a different timetable'.
Patterns
- be placed in the advanced students' class
- teach advanced students
- the advanced students' group
After the placement test, she was put in the advanced students' group.
The school separates beginners from advanced students during conversation practice.
Word forms
| plural | advanced students |
|---|
Common combinations
- an advanced student of English
- He is an advanced student of English and rarely makes grammar mistakes.
- advanced students' class
- The advanced students' class meets on Tuesday evenings.
- highly advanced student
- She is a highly advanced student for her age.
- advanced-level student
- Advanced-level students read original articles instead of simplified texts.
- a class for advanced students
- The school runs a class for advanced students on Saturday mornings.
Synonyms and how they differ
- proficient learner
- Emphasizes skill and accuracy rather than the length of study, and sounds more formal.
- upper-level student
- Focuses on the student's position in a course system rather than personal ability.
Opposites
Word family
- advanced adjective
- At a high level or stage; the adjective that forms this phrase.
- advance verb
- To move forward or make progress in learning.
- advancement noun
- The process of improving or moving to a higher level.
Commonly confused: advanced student or advanced learner?
advanced student vs advanced learner
Very similar, but 'learner' is broader and is used especially for people studying languages outside school.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'advanced student' correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Advanced student' is a countable noun phrase, so it needs a determiner such as 'an'. Option 2 misses 'of', option 3 misses the article, and option 4 wrongly uses the verb form 'advanced'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “advanced student”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.