| Section | Time | Format | Description |
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| Language Arts – Reading |
65 minutes |
Multiple-choice questions |
- This section measures your ability to understand, interpret and analyze a broad range of literary and informational texts.
- The selected texts range in length from approximately 400 to 600 words.
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| Language Arts – Writing |
120 minutes |
Multiple-choice questions and an essay prompt |
- This section measures your skill in recognizing and producing standard American English and is in two parts.
- The multiple-choice section measures your ability to edit and revise written text.
- The essay measures your ability to generate and organize ideas in writing.
|
| Mathematics |
90 minutes |
Multiple-choice questions |
- This section measures mathematical knowledge and competencies.
- Questions are presented as practical problems and are solved by numerical operations, measurement, estimation, data interpretation and logical thinking.
- Some questions test abstract concepts such as algebraic patterns and probability.
- You may use a calculator for this section.
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| Science |
80 minutes |
Multiple-choice questions |
- This section measures your ability to use science content knowledge, apply principles of scientific inquiry, and interpret and evaluate scientific information.
- Graphs, tables and charts are used to present information and results.
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| Social Studies |
70 minutes |
Multiple-choice questions |
- This section measures your ability to analyze and evaluate information from a variety of content areas such as history, political science, psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography and economics.
- Primary documents, posters, cartoons, timelines, maps, graphs, tables, charts and reading passages are used in questions.
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