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Pre-Promoted is a term used when for a character who is already in a second tier or third tier class when recruited (such as Seth, Titania, and Frederick). Pre-Promoted characters are often some of the best characters in their games due to their high base stats and usually decent growth rates. Even after some early-game pre-promotes lose relevance in the late-game, they can still be used as utility units such as for Rescuing or acting as a "stat backpack" with Pair Up.
Some games may use a different formula in either EXP gain or the promotion system. For instance, in Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, EXP gain is not affected by promotion at all. In Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War does not take the fact that a character is promoted into consideration in regards to EXP gain, and the level is never reset. Most units that don't start off promoted will have to do so at level 20. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn uses a three-tier promotion system, and due to every unit past Part 1 joining as a second-tier unit, it is impossible to play the game without using pre-promotes. In Fire Emblem Awakening, the Second Seal resets the level to 1, and it can also be used to demote a promoted unit to a first tier class. However, due to the way experience gain works, it may not be advisable to use a Second Seal at the highest level possible since even though the level is reset, half of the levels the unit has upon using a Second Seal is then added upon to the reset level, resulting in a level value that is hidden from the player. (e.g. A unit that uses a Second Seal at level 20 is treated as a level 11 unit after the level is reset.) How high the value this hidden level value grows is dependent on the difficulty being played, however.