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** MCA II Math GRAD Test Practice ** Below you will find some practice GRAD problems. These are the sample questions like the ones that will count towards graduation on the test. Remember: not all the questions on the test count towards graduation!! It is your job to search through the questions and make sure you answer ALL the questions you can. Students who are RETAKING the MCA II test will only have to retake questions that count towards graduation. The retake test will be shorter than the original test you took during the spring of your junior year. It is difficult to explain... This is from an article by Tom Weber of Minnesota Public Radio in December of 2008 : "The GRAD test is administered within the MCA-II test. For math, students will answer 85 total questions. The answers to 40 of those will determine the student's GRAD score; 50 answers will be used to score the MCA-II. Those two numbers add up to more than 85 because there's overlap: Twenty-five of the questions are used to grade both the MCA-II and GRAD. (In fact, 20 of the 85 questions aren't graded at all; they're used as field tests and are being prepared for use in future exams.) " . To read the entire article, go to the link below (Tom Weber Article). **SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES FOR STUDY** 1. Try the GRAD sampler questions (download them below). Check your answers with the answer key and make note of the type of questions you did not understand or answered incorrectly. If you have someone who can help you, ask them to go over those problems with you and write down topics that you may need to review. 2. Look at the MCA vocabulary list (download it below). Make note of any words you may be unfamiliar with. Do a google search and see what you can find. Otherwise check out Cliffnotes.com (see the link below) and search for that word.