1.Reading skills and knowledge: To measure the examinee’s ability to understand, interpret, and analyze a wide range of text which may use graphs, charts, and tables that are drawn from a variety of sources using the following skills:

• Identify main idea
• Identify supporting ideas
• Identify text organization
• Determine the meaning of text
• Draw inferences from text
• Determine whether a text is fact or opinion
• Interpret information from graphs, charts, or tables
• To measure the examinee’s ability to apply the foundations of reading skills in the classroom to help students:
• Recognize long and short vowel sounds
• Recognize the different types of affixes
• Decode words using context clues
• Distinguish the difference between synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms 
• Alphabetize words
• To measure the examinee’s ability to use the tools of the reading process to aid student in:
• Skimming and scanning a text, and knowing the most effective method to use
• Learning to use a dictionary
• Interpreting written information

2.Mathematics: To measure the examinee’s ability to apply mathematical concepts to abstract and real-life situations. No calculator is allowed. The three categories covered in the math section include: 

Number sense and algebra

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
• Recognize greater than, less than, and equal to
• Know math vocabulary, such as sum, difference, product and quotient
• Order fractions
• Recognize equivalent fractions
• Demonstrate knowledge of place values
• Compute percentages
• Demonstrate knowledge of exponents
• Demonstrate knowledge of order of operations
• Solve variable-linear equations
• Identify the next number in a pattern sequence

Geometry and measurement

• • Represent time and money in multiple ways
  • Converting units of measurement
  • Identify geometrical shapes
  • Find the area, volume, and parameter of a shape
  • Graph data on an xy-coordinate plane

Data analysis

• • Given a table, chart, or graph, demonstrate the ability to interpret trends
  • Compute mean, median, and mode

3.Writing: Writing skills and knowledge in order to identify or help the students with the following:

• Grammatical errors
• Errors in word usage
• Errors in punctuation
• Subject, verb and predicate 
• Nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions
• Errors in spelling
• Organize ideas using an outline
• Identify and use appropriate reference materials
• Writing a thesis statement
• Edit run-on sentence fragments