ACCUPLACER For Beginners

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Lessons
TestPrep
ACCUPLACER For Beginners

Lessons

21+ Lessons | 210+ Exercises | 86+ Quizzes |

TestPrep

105+ Pre Assessment Questions | 105+ Post Assessment Questions |

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Lessons 1: Introduction

  • About This Course
  • False Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Course
  • Where to Go from Here

Lessons 2: Getting to Know the ACCUPLACER

  • Knowing What the ACCUPLACER Is and Whether You Really Need to Take It
  • Discovering When, Where, and How to Take the ACCUPLACER
  • Understanding What Happens After You Take the ACCUPLACER

Lessons 3: Taking a Closer Look at What’s on the ACCUPLACER

  • Reading Test
  • Writing Test
  • Three Math Tests

Lessons 4: Preparation and Test Strategy

  • Strategies for Taking the ACCUPLACER
  • Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan

Lessons 5: Reading Passages

  • Outline of the ACCUPLACER Reading Test
  • Passage Form — What the Passages Look Like
  • Passage Content — What the Passages Are About

Lessons 6: Working through Reading Questions

  • Questions about Information and Ideas
  • Questions Focusing on Rhetoric
  • Questions That Compare Two Texts
  • Questions That Test Vocabulary

Lessons 7: Standard English Grammar Conventions

  • Review of English Sentence Grammar
  • Nouns, Pronouns, and Possessives
  • Practicing Perfect Punctuation
  • Other Key Grammar Issues

Lessons 8: Expression of Ideas

  • Development
  • Organization
  • Effective Language Use

Lessons 9: Arithmetic: Whole Numbers and Fractions

  • Whole Numbers
  • Fractions

Lessons 10: Decimals, Percents, and Word Problems

  • Decimals
  • Percents
  • Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
  • Comparing Values
  • Word Problems

Lessons 11: Arithmetic Practice Questions

  • Arithmetic Practice Problems
  • Arithmetic Practice Problem Answers and Explanations

Lessons 12: Quantitative Reasoning and Pre-Algebra

  • Quantitative Reasoning
  • Knowing Some Pre-Algebra Basics

Lessons 13: Algebra and Geometry

  • Using Algebra to Solve Equations, Systems of Equations, and Inequalities
  • Setting Up Algebra Word Problems
  • Linear Functions
  • Geometry

Lessons 14: Statistics, Probability, and Sets

  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Probability
  • Set Theory

Lessons 15: Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics Practice Questions

  • Quantitative Reasoning Practice Questions
  • Algebra Practice Questions
  • Geometry Practice
  • Statistics, Probability, and Sets Practice
  • Answers and Explanations

Lessons 16: Factoring and Functions

  • Factoring Polynomials
  • Function Notation
  • Parent Functions
  • Transformations of Functions

Lessons 17: Polynomials and Other Functions

  • Polynomial Functions
  • Quadratic Equations and Functions
  • Exponential Equations and Functions
  • Logarithmic Equations (and Functions)
  • Radical Functions
  • Finding the Domain and Range of a Rational Function

Lessons 18: Geometry and Trigonometry

  • Geometry
  • Trigonometry

Lessons 19: Advanced Algebra and Functions Practice Questions

  • Advanced Algebra and Functions Practice Questions
  • Answers

Lessons 20: Ten Ways College Is Different from High School

  • Greater Personal Freedom
  • Greater Personal Responsibility
  • Professional Behavior
  • A Civil Conversation
  • Due Respect for and Engagement with the Subject of the Class
  • Fewer — But Longer — Tests and Projects
  • Access to the Professor only during Office Hours
  • College Costs Money
  • More Opportunities — and Challenges — and Distractions
  • Simple Human Decency

Lessons 21: Ten Ways to Boost Your Performance (and Your Score) on the ACCUPLACER

  • Know Which ACCUPLACER Sections Your School Requires
  • Take Care of Yourself the Night before and the Day of the ACCUPLACER Exam
  • Pick Your Best Time of Day to Take the Test
  • Consider Taking the ACCUPLACER in Two or More Sessions
  • As You Start the Test, Breathe! And Keep Breathing
  • Take Your Time
  • Check In with Yourself Before You Start Each New Section
  • Keep the ACCUPLACER in Perspective
  • Sometimes, Two Is a Charm!
  • Repeat after Me: “I’m Doing My Best.”