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Sample Questions from ACCUPLACER: Testing Center

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Sample questions are shown below for each of the ACCUPLACER tests. Those presented cover only a few of the areas covered by each test. Download any of the following pdf documents to practice sample questions.

Thanks to Darlene Nold, Denver Colorado, for creating the study guides.

A few sample questions are also covered in:

Reading Comprehension

Question 1: Narrative
Read the statement or passage and then choose the best answer to the question. Answer the question on the basis of what is stated or implied in the statement or passage. There are two types of pottery that I do. There is production pottery-mugs, tableware, the kinds of things that sell easily. These pay for my time to do the other work, which is more creative and satisfies my needs as an artist. The author of the passage implies that:
A. artists have a tendency to waste valuable time
B. creativity and mass-production are incompatible
C. most people do not appreciate good art
D. pottery is not produced by creative artists

Question 2: Sentence Relationships
Two bold sentences are followed by a question or statement about them. Read each pair of sentences and then choose the best answer to the question or the best completion of the statement. The Midwest is experiencing its worst drought in fifteen years.

Corn and soybean prices are expected to be very high this year. What does the second sentence do?
A. It restates the idea found in the first.
B. It states an effect.
C. It gives an example.
D. It analyzes the statement made in the first.


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