[dragonwriter]

I hear “exam” all the time in American English, though “test” is perhaps slightly more common. The “T” in LSAT, SAT, PSAT, etc. is “test”, but they are “AP exams” [0], “bar exams”, etc., and both “test prep” and “exam prep” are commom terms for the industry that esiats to take money from people hoping for better scores on any of them.

[0] https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/ap-exams-overview

[alephnerd]

Interesting. For me at least, it's 70-30 test-exam.

Would love to see if there is a regional dialectic difference or maybe some kind of a language shift in the past 15-20 years.

[dllthomas]

I'm not sure there's actually a huge difference between "perhaps slightly more common" and "70-30" when operating from vague impressions like this.