Description of Test

Reading Comprehension:
This test is designed to measure how well you understand what you read. It contains 20 questions. Some ask you to decide how two sentences are related. Other questions ask you questions about reading passages of various lengths. You will be asked to interpret and draw conclusions from what you have read.

Sentence Skills:
Two kinds of questions are given in this test. You will be asked to correct a sentence choosing a word or phrase to substitute for an underlined portion of a sentence. In the other type of question, you will be asked to rewrite a sentence in a specific way without changing the meaning. You will be presented a total of 20 questions.

Arithmetic:
The Arithmetic test measures your skills in three primary categories:

1. Operations with whole numbers and fractions includes:
   • addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
   • recognizing equivalent fractions and mixed numbers.
     
     
2. Operations with decimals and percent includes:
   • addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
   • percent problems, decimal recognition, and fraction.
   • percent equivalencies, and estimation problems.
     
     
3. Applications and problem solving include:
   • rate, percent, and measurement problems.
   • geometry problems.
   • distribution of a quantity into its fractional part.

A total of 16 questions are asked.

Elementary Algebra:
There are three categories in the Elementary Algebra Test:

1. Operations with integers and rational numbers includes:
   • computation with integers and negative rationals.
   • the use of absolute values and ordering.
     
     
2. Operations with algebraic expressions:
   • evaluation of simple formulas
   • expressions and adding.
   • subtracting monomials and polynomials.
   • the evaluation of positive rational roots and exponents
   • simplifying algebraic fractions and factoring.
     
     
3. Equation solving, inequalities, and word problems includes:
   • solving verbal problems presented in algebraic context.
   • geometric reasoning
   • the translation of written phrases into algebraic expressions
   • graphing

A total of 12 questions are asked.

College-Level Mathematics:
The College-Level mathematics test assesses proficiency from intermediate algebra through pre-calculus. The categories covered include:

1. Algebraic operations includes:
   • simplifying rational algebraic expressions.
   • factoring and expanding polynomials.
   • manipulating roots and exponents.
     
     
2. Solutions of equations and inequalities includes:
   • the solution of linear and quadratic equations by factoring
   • expanding polynomials
   • manipulating roots and exponents
     
     
3. Coordinate geometry asks questions about:
   • plane geometry
   • the coordinate plane, straight lines, conics, sets of points in a plane
   • graphs algebraic functions
     
     
4. Applications and other algebra topics ask about:
   • complex numbers
   • series and sequences
   • determinants, permutations
   • combinations, fractions
   • word problems
     
     
5. Functions and trigonometry presents questions about:
   • polynomials, algebraic, exponential, logarithmic
   • trigonometric functions

A total of 20 questions are asked.

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