Admissions

Biology

• 30-minute multiple choice assessment
• Calculators are permitted
• Reviews general biological principals and basic biological topics
• Study Guide

Chemistry

• 30-minute multiple-choice assessment
• Calculators are permitted
• Covers general concepts plus specific chemistry knowledge appropriate to a comprehensive high school chemistry course.
• Study Guide

English

• Two part multiple-choice computer-based assessment
• The Next-Generation Reading test assesses the test-taker’s ability to derive meaning from a range of texts and to determine the meaning of words and phrases in short and extended contexts. Passages on the test cover a range of content areas, writing modes, and complexities. Both single and paired passages are included. Four broad knowledge and skills categories are assessed – information and ideas, rhetoric, synthesis, and vocabulary
• The Next-Generation Writing test evaluates a test-taker’s ability to revise and edit multiparagraph text. Questions cover two broad knowledge and skills categories, each containing three subcategories:
• Expression of Ideas – development, organization, effective language use
• Standard English Conventions – sentence structure, usage, punctuation
• Study Guide: Writing
• Study Guide: Reading 

Mathematics

• Two part multiple-choice computer-based assessment
• Hand held calculators are not permitted
• The Next-Generation Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics (QAS) assesses the following knowledge and skills – rational numbers, ratio and proportional relationships, exponents, algebraic expressions, linear equations, linear applications and graphs, probability sets, descriptive statistics, and geometry concepts
• Next-Generation Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF) assesses the following knowledge and skills – linear equations, linear applications and graphs, factoring, quadratics, functions, radical and rational equations, exponential and logarithmic equations, and trigonometry
• Study Guide: Next-Generation Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics (QAS)
• Study Guide: Next-Generation Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF)

Physics

• 30 minute multiple-choice assessment
• Calculators are not required.
• Tests conceptual knowledge in the areas of kinematics (position, velocity, and acceleration-one dimensional motion) and dynamics (adding forces, collisions, Newton’s Laws).
• Study Guide

Computer Programming

• 30 minute multiple-choice and true/false assessments
• Calculators are not permitted.
• Tests general knowledge of the C programming language and general computer programming principles covered in a comprehensive programming course.
• Study Guide