The Science test is 90 minutes with no breaks. It includes 2 short answer questions that allow about 10 minutes per question. You may use the TI-30XS MultiView calculator; bring your own if you prefer a hand-held calculator.
The Science test measures:
Item Types:
Other skills:
The Science test measures:
- life science (40%) [human body and health; relationship between life functions and energy intake; energy flows in ecologic networks (ecosystems); organization of life; molecular basis for heredity; evolution]
- physical science (40%) [conservation, transformation, and flow of energy; work, motion and forces; chemical properties and reactions related to living systems]
- Earth and space science (20%) [interactions between Earth's system and living things; Earth and its system components and interactions; structures and organization of the cosmos]
- your ability to read, understand, and interpret science-related texts
- problem solving abilities in science-related situations
Item Types:
- multiple choice
- fill-in-the-blank items
- hot-spot items
- drag-and-drop items
Other skills:
- evaluating reasoning and evidence
- reasoning from data
- understanding and applying tools, techniques, and units in scientific investigations
- understanding and applying scientific theories
- using probability and statistics in a scientific context
- describing patterns in a dataset
- calculating the average
- calculating a weighted average