Some tasks at this level may require the reader to enter information onto a form or to cycle through information in a document. Tasks at this level appear to be most varied. Some require the reader to make literal or synonymous matches, but usually the matches require the reader to take conditional information into account or to match on multiple features of information. Sometimes conditional information is present in the document, which must be taken into account by the reader. Tasks at this level require the reader to search through complex displays of information that contain multiple distracters, to make high-level inferences, process conditional information, or use specialized knowledge.
Quantitative literacy involves using numbers and arithmetic operations to complete a task.
These numbers often must be located and extracted from different types of documents that contain similar but irrelevant information, be inferred from printed directions, or undergo multiple operations. Tasks at this level typically require the reader to perform a single operation. However, the operations become more variedsome multiplication and division tasks are found in this level. Sometimes two or more numbers are needed to solve the problem and the numbers are frequently embedded in more complex displays. With one exception, the tasks at this level require the reader to perform a single arithmetic operation where typically either the quantities or the operation are not easily determined.