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Dravoid

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Advanced Placement Test (APT)
« on: February 22, 2015, 02:33:09 pm »
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Hi guys,
I'm about to start studying Commerce, planning on majoring in Actuarial Studies. I got a 35 in Spesh and a 37 in Methods, and due to my low marks, I'm not able to get into Accelerated Maths 1 (which leads to Accelerated Maths 2). Because of this, I am required to take the Advanced Placement Test in a week. There hasn't been much information online about the test, so I was just wondering what the test is like?
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Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2015, 02:53:54 pm »
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Guy I spoke to in AM1 last year said that the APT tested his knowledge of Specialist Maths, mostly vectors/complex numbers.
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Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2015, 08:12:20 pm »
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Awesome! Cheers, did he say anything about the difficulty of the test?

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Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2015, 11:17:25 am »
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I had to do it to get into AM (barely any info on it) and from memory I wouldn't say it was any harder than a Spesh Exam 1 paper. Just try to remember the topics from specialist, my test tested me on most of those (that I can remember) and you should be OK. You get tested for your knowledge on six areas and you have to pass a certain amount to get in, I'm not quite sure what the criteria is so just be good at everything.

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Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2015, 02:20:17 pm »
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I'm doing actuarial studies too :)

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Re: Advanced Placement Test (APT)
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2015, 06:25:16 pm »
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Thanks for all the replies!
Uhh possiblyyy?