Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Arithmetic + shared English components.
School-specific component
Differs by school
Arithmetic
~20–25 questionsMultiple 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 (shared)
Same for both schools
Accuplacer Reading
~20–25 questionsMultiple 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 questionsMultiple choice
What's assessed
- Expression of Ideas — development, organization, effective language
- Standard English Conventions — sentence structure, usage, punctuation
Essay Writing
1 prompt5-paragraph persuasive essay (~350–500 words)
What's assessed
- Purpose & focus
- Critical thinking
- Organization & structure
- Development & support
- Sentence variety & style
- Mechanical conventions
Ready to start?
Practice the Arithmetic pool tailored to AHSS, or practice the shared English components.