The test contains about 130 multiple-choice questions — each constructed to simplify mathematical manipulations, so calculators or tables of logarithms aren't needed.

For problems that require the use of logarithms, the necessary values are included with the question.

The test booklet has a periodic table and a table of information presenting various physical constants and a few conversion factors among SI units. When necessary, additional values of physical constants appear within test questions.

Here's a look at the distribution of test content:

• Analytical Chemistry – 15%
• Inorganic Chemistry – 25%
• Organic Chemistry – 30%
• Physical Chemistry – 30%

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There are approximately 230 questions on the test.

The test draws on literature in English from the British Isles, the United States and other parts of the world. It also contains a few questions on major works, including the Bible, translated from other languages.

The test emphasizes authors, works, genres and movements. The questions may be somewhat arbitrarily classified into two groups: factual and critical.

Here’s a look at the distribution of test content:

• Literary Analysis (40 – 55%)
  The content focuses on your ability to interpret given passages of prose and poetry. Questions may involve recognition of conventions and genres, allusions and references, meaning and tone, grammatical structures and rhetorical strategies and literary techniques.
• Identification (15 – 20%)
  These questions test your ability to recognize dates, author or work by style and/or content (for literary theory identifications see IV below).
• Cultural and Historical Contexts (20 – 25%)
  Material focuses on literary, cultural and intellectual history as well as identification of author or work through a critical statement or biographical information. Also, you're asked to identify details of character, plot or setting of a work.
• History and Theory of Literary Criticism (10 – 15%)
  Questions will consist of identification and analysis of the characteristics and methods of various critical and theoretical approaches.

Here is the distribution of the literary-historical scope of the test:

1. Continental, Classical and Comparative Literature through 1925 (5 – 10%)
2. British Literature to 1660, including Milton (25 – 30%)
3. British Literature 1660–1925 (25 – 35%)
4. American Literature through 1925 (15 – 25%)
5. American, British and World Literatures after 1925 (20 – 30%)

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There are approximately 100 multiple-choice questions, some are grouped in sets and based on diagrams, graphs, experimental data and descriptions of physical situations. Most of the questions are based on topics from the first 3 years of undergraduate physics.

The International System (SI) of units is used predominantly in the test. A table of information representing various physical constants and a few conversion factors among SI units is presented in the test book.

You should be familiar with the following mathematical methods and their applications in physics. Such mathematical methods include single and multivariate calculus, coordinate systems (rectangular, cylindrical and spherical), vector algebra and vector differential operators, Fourier series, partial differential equations, boundary value problems, matrices and determinants and functions of complex variables. These methods may appear in the test in the context of various content categories as well as occasional questions concerning only mathematics in the specialized topics category below.

Here’s a look at the distribution of test content:

• Classical Mechanics – 20%
• Electromagnetism – 18%
• Optics and Wave Phenomena – 9%
• Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics – 10%
• Quantum Mechanics – 12%
• Atomic Physics – 10%
• Special Relativity – 6%
• Laboratory Methods – 6%
• Specialized Topics – 9%

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