For more details about exams, click on the appropriate highlighted links. Each of the General Examinations covers material taught in courses that most students take as requirements in the first two years of college. Each is 90 minutes long and, except for the English Composition with Essay, consists entirely of multiple-choice questions to be answered in two separately timed sections. Three or six semester hours of credit are usually awarded for satisfactory scores on each General Examination. English Composition assesses the ability to do the kind of writing that explains, interprets, analyzes, or presents and supports a point of view, as well as the ability to apply the principles and conventions of standard written English.
Humanities covers material taught in fine arts and introductory literature survey courses.
It includes questions on painting, sculpture, music, film, dance, and architecture, as well as on drama, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. College Mathematics deals with material generally taught in college mathematics courses taken by students majoring in fields that do not require advanced mathematics. It tests facility in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, data interpretation and understanding of logic and sets, the real number system, functions, and probability and statistics. Nonprogrammable, nongraphing calculators may be used, but are not required. Natural Sciences covers material taught in introductory biological and physical science courses for nonscience majors.