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Bob Miller's Math for the Accuplacer: All the Math You Need for a Higher Score
Bob Miller's Math for the ACCUPLACER® Gets You a High Score!
More than 1,300 high schools, technical schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges across the country use the ACCUPLACER® to determine the skill levels of incoming students. Students at all learning levels will benefit from this comprehensive college placement test prep.
Written by a math specialist, our test prep contains everything you need to know to score high on the math portion of the ACCUPLACER®. The book explains math concepts in a lively, easy-to-grasp style.
The targeted review section covers all the math topics tested on the ACCUPLACER® including arithmetic (17 questions on the test), elementary algebra (12 questions on the test), and college-level math (20 questions on the test). To help you get the most out of your ACCUPLACER® preparation, Bob has included four practice tests for each section - for a total of 12 exams!
Each chapter includes step-by-step examples and exercises. Detailed explanations of solutions help you understand and retain the material. Test-taking advice, study tips, and exam strategies prepare you for exam day, ease your anxiety, and help you boost your score.
If you're taking the ACCUPLACER® and need to improve your math skills before test day, this is the book for you!
More than 1,300 high schools, technical schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges across the country use the ACCUPLACER® to determine the skill levels of incoming students. Students at all learning levels will benefit from this comprehensive college placement test prep.
Written by a math specialist, our test prep contains everything you need to know to score high on the math portion of the ACCUPLACER®. The book explains math concepts in a lively, easy-to-grasp style.
The targeted review section covers all the math topics tested on the ACCUPLACER® including arithmetic (17 questions on the test), elementary algebra (12 questions on the test), and college-level math (20 questions on the test). To help you get the most out of your ACCUPLACER® preparation, Bob has included four practice tests for each section - for a total of 12 exams!
Each chapter includes step-by-step examples and exercises. Detailed explanations of solutions help you understand and retain the material. Test-taking advice, study tips, and exam strategies prepare you for exam day, ease your anxiety, and help you boost your score.
If you're taking the ACCUPLACER® and need to improve your math skills before test day, this is the book for you!
368 pages, Paperback
First published November 9, 2009
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January 16, 2013
It was a great way to brush up on details you might be unsure of or if you have lost familiarity with some of the basic (when compared to college) mathematics. I think it will bring you to your highest possible level of performance for the test. I say that because if you have never seen certain things before when you get to the later chapters, chances are you will NOT and probably SHOULD not get past it when it comes to placement and the material in that section of the book would likely come across as too over your head so if you are just learning it for the first time, you are better off looking elsewhere (Khan, your local library, etc) to fill in those details and then coming back to this book for review.
There were a handful of pages I thought a worthwhile quick reference.
I have begun my quest toward the goal of an engineering bachelors to supersede a finance bachelors and took the Accuplacer on 1/14/2013 with my raw stats being a 116 score in "Elementary Algebra" and a 71 in "College Level Math" which placed me into Precalculus. Little disappointing personally, even if in my formal educational history so far the highest I had reached was the Precalculus level, despite trying to self-study that and Trigonometry and thinking my performance was relatively strong even if I would be more than willing to acknowledge my depth is slightly shallow on some of the topics. As for the material I encountered (your experience will probably vary), there was only one question strictly geometry and I think I might have had a slight weakness on functions while being stronger than I would have thought since it was basic trigonometry where I suspect anyone who had taken a formal class would just know the material cold. Does make me wonder if I had taken extra time whether I would have placed into Calculus I, as there was one or two questions I kind of guessed on after feeling like I spent too much time even if unclear whether I would have been satisfied with my answer had I taken the extra time.
Still quite a long way from when I first picked up this book and found myself rusty and wondering if I would place into College Algebra after not being exposed to the basics for so long and thinking I might have to rely on transcripts to push me back into the Precalc level.
There were a handful of pages I thought a worthwhile quick reference.
I have begun my quest toward the goal of an engineering bachelors to supersede a finance bachelors and took the Accuplacer on 1/14/2013 with my raw stats being a 116 score in "Elementary Algebra" and a 71 in "College Level Math" which placed me into Precalculus. Little disappointing personally, even if in my formal educational history so far the highest I had reached was the Precalculus level, despite trying to self-study that and Trigonometry and thinking my performance was relatively strong even if I would be more than willing to acknowledge my depth is slightly shallow on some of the topics. As for the material I encountered (your experience will probably vary), there was only one question strictly geometry and I think I might have had a slight weakness on functions while being stronger than I would have thought since it was basic trigonometry where I suspect anyone who had taken a formal class would just know the material cold. Does make me wonder if I had taken extra time whether I would have placed into Calculus I, as there was one or two questions I kind of guessed on after feeling like I spent too much time even if unclear whether I would have been satisfied with my answer had I taken the extra time.
Still quite a long way from when I first picked up this book and found myself rusty and wondering if I would place into College Algebra after not being exposed to the basics for so long and thinking I might have to rely on transcripts to push me back into the Precalc level.
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