Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Arithmetic + English components.

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School-specific component

Arithmetic

~20–25 questions

Multiple choice

What's assessed
  • Whole number operations
  • Fraction operations & equivalents
  • Decimal operations & equivalents
  • Percent, including word problems
  • Number comparison, equivalents, rounding, estimation
  • Squares & square roots

English components

Accuplacer Reading

~20–25 questions

Multiple choice

What's assessed
  • Information & Ideas, central ideas, summarizing, relationships
  • Rhetoric, word choice, structure, point of view, arguments
  • Synthesis across multiple texts
  • Vocabulary in context

Accuplacer Writing

~20–25 questions

Multiple choice

What's assessed
  • Expression of Ideas, development, organization, effective language
  • Standard English Conventions, sentence structure, usage, punctuation

Essay Writing

1 prompt

5-paragraph persuasive essay (~350–500 words)

What's assessed
  • Purpose & focus
  • Critical thinking
  • Organization & structure
  • Development & support
  • Sentence variety & style
  • Mechanical conventions