How do I prepare for the Math Placement Test?

The ALEKS PPL Math Placement Test has a brief tutorial which shows you how to input responses; however there is no ALEKS PPL practice test before the actual test. If you would like to prepare for the test, we recommend you use a website like Khan Academy or other sources such as the free worksheets on Create Custom Grade 6, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Precalculus, and Calculus Worksheets to review and to do practice problems. Please be advised that the test is meant to assess your current mathematics knowledge, and the goal of the assessment is for you to be placed into an appropriate course where you will be successful. Reviewing is fine, but attempting to teach yourself topics that you have never learned in order to get a higher placement score may result in you being placed into a course that you are not prepared to take.

Specific topics that may be covered on the test include:

• Real numbers (including fractions, integers, and percentages)

• Equations and inequalities (including linear equations, linear inequalities, systems of linear equations, and quadratic equations)

• Linear and quadratic functions (including graphs and functions, linear functions, and parabolas)

• Exponents and polynomials (including integer exponents, polynomial arithmetic, factoring, and polynomial equations)

• Rational expressions (including rational equations and rational functions

• Radical expressions (including higher roots and rational exponents)

• Exponentials and logarithms (including function compositions and inverse functions, properties of logarithms, and logarithmic equations)

• Geometry and trigonometry (including perimeter, area, and volume, coordinate geometry, trigonometric functions, and identities and equations).
  
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