Math Placement Exam

How hard is this test? Any tips for preparing for this exam will be appriciated. Thank you in advance. :-h

I don’t think it’s a high difficulty level, but people sometimes do poorly because they’ve spent the last year and a half doing calculus. A quick review of the topics included like log and ln rules , trig identities, factoring and expanding polynomials, simplifying expressions and fractions, absolute value, equation of a line forms, etc.is very worthwhile. There are a couple practice tests out there if you do a Web search for tamu mpe test including one from i think usc but it’s actually an a&m test. For engineers the mpe has to be done by may 20 it says and 14 days between tries so do the math on that one. I’m thinking it’s 22/33 to get into math 151. Good luck.

@DoctorWho216 - If you take the practice test and work on any weak areas, you should be fine.

Practice Test - https://collegereadymath.math.tamu.edu/files/practice_test.pdf

Practice Test Solutions - https://collegereadymath.math.tamu.edu/files/practice_test_solns.pdf

Links to online algebra help by problem number - https://collegereadymath.math.tamu.edu/Algebra_Diagnostic_Links.htm

Complete College Algebra/Pre-calculus online text - http://webalg.math.tamu.edu/mindex.htm

Other College Algebra tutorials - https://collegereadymath.math.tamu.edu/files/collegealgebrahelp.html

Thank you both for your great responses.