CPT Skills
Skills Measured by the CPT and FCELPT Assessments
Reading Comprehension
- Recognize the main idea and less central ideas
- Recognize the tone of the passage
- Recognize relationships between sentences, such as the use of one sentence to illustrate another
- Answer questions that require synthesis of information, including gauging point of view and
- intended audience
- Recognize organizing principles in a paragraph or passage
- Identify contradictory or contrasting statements
- Extract points that are merely implied
- Follow moderately complex arguments or speculations
- Analyze the logic employed by the author in making an argument
Sentence Skills
- Correct sentence fragments
- Solve problems of faulty coordination and subordination in a sentence with one or two clauses
- Manipulate complex verb tenses
- Correct misplaced modifiers
- Solve problems that combine grammar and logic
- Manipulate complex sentences with two or more subordinate clauses
- Correct problems of syntax and repetitive diction
- Recognize correct and incorrect linkages of clauses, including problems involving semicolons
Elementary Algebra
- Demonstrate a sense of order relationships and the relative size of signed numbers
- Demonstrate the ability to multiply a whole number by a binomial
- Combine like terms
- Multiply binomials
- Evaluate algebraic expressions
- Add radicals
- Add algebraic fractions
- Factor quadratic expressions in the form ax2 + bx + c, where a =
- Factor the difference of squares
- Square binomials
- Solve linear equations with integer coefficients
- Simplify algebraic expressions
- Factor quadratic expressions where a = 1
- Solve quadratic equations
- Solve linear equations with fractional and literal coefficients and linear inequalities with integer coefficients
- Solve systems of equations
- Identify graphical properties of equations and inequalities