Due to inadequate academic preparation, he failed the entrance examinations.

Many teachers said they believed the biggest cause for students' failure was inadequate preparation in middle school.

All his adventures with Telmon had been childhood games without risk, inadequate preparation for the real thing.

Although he faced institutionalized racism in his career, inadequate preparation was cited.

The Spaniards got the blame for inadequate preparation, and the tournament came close to collapse.

The first meeting at Hagenau, 1540, failed because of inadequate preparation.

There was inadequate preparation to deal with the arriving U-boats.

The many problems nurses face in their professional lives are not a function of inadequate preparation in the clinical area.

Practice shooting and training exercises on computer simulators are inadequate preparation for real situations, he said.

And it won't address the real problem: the inadequate academic preparation of too many high school graduates, particularly those from low-income families.