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Old 04-16-2010, 11:45 PM   #1
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FTCAP Placement Tests
Does anyone know roughly how long this will take to complete? or how this actually works? Thanks
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Old 04-17-2010, 12:58 PM   #2
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2-3 hours, it is basically a multiple choice test with 5 possible answers for each one. The spelling part was the most annoying.
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Old 04-17-2010, 01:10 PM   #3
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nickanzo - my son found the vocab part to be the most annoying! But he's an incredibly good speller!

It took him roughly 3 hours to do the tests and the education/planning survey or whatever afterwards. Overall, he found it all pretty easy.
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Old 04-17-2010, 02:49 PM   #4
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The chem and math parts were extremely easy!
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Old 04-17-2010, 04:17 PM   #5
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I thought so too. The english was definitely the most difficult section.
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Old 05-08-2010, 06:23 AM   #6
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what level of difficulty are the math and chem tests...as in what is the level of the questions... is their like calculus,matrices etc.
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Old 05-08-2010, 07:26 AM   #7
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The math test did not have matrices or calc on it. From what I remember, the hardest type of problem was trig. The chem test was mainly balancing chemical formulas, and moles.
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Old 05-08-2010, 10:56 AM   #8
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On the FTCAP webpage is a list of topics covered on all the tests.
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