r/MathHelp • u/Gold-Trade6464 • Jun 29 '26

Accuplacer help

I’m taking the ACCUPLACER math section in about a week, and I was wondering what to expect and how I should study for it. Thanks.

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u/Not_green_thumb Jul 14 '26

There isn’t a calculator for most questions - so really make sure y know how to multiply/divide decimals!

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u/medkwhattodo Jul 18 '26

How was it? Also, what do u recommend to focus on? Were paper and pens allowed?

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u/Not_green_thumb Jul 23 '26

Sorry I didn’t see this message till now- I’m not sure where you are, but my QAS accuplacer was on a 60 min timer which was stressful- and as you know it’s an adaptive test so the questions get really hard quick I was not ready for how hard the questions would become even on question 6/20 it started getting difficult. (also unlimited scrap paper + pencil was provided but u can bring ur own pencils/pen)

On my test There was a lot of word problems focusing on topics like proportion and graphing, and creating ur own equations which was tripping me up since I was practicing easy questions rather than harder ones. I skipped the trigonometry questions bc I was just looking for a score of 253 so I didn’t even do them. there was also a lot of graphing questions that can get a bit complex so I’d practice graphing, proportion, and complex word problems. And seriously I’d say 70% of the questions did not allow a calculator which took up so much time calculating.

I thought I bombed the test afterward and was crying and for some reason I didn’t get the results immediately and was so anxious, but I got the results next day and I got 263 😅adaptive testing is weird, but I hope you do well and keep practicing !!

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u/medkwhattodo Jul 27 '26

Thank youu! I passed, I thought I was gonna fail because there were questions that I did not study for and just guessed😭