PERT Test Reading and Writing Success Advantage+ Edition

The PERT Test Reading and Writing Success Advantage+ Edition is the most comprehensive preparatory and review material available for the PERT Reading and Writing Tests. This book contains seven PERT practice tests, with the first 137 pages covering the same great material as Academic Success Media's original publication.

The book includes three reading practice tests and three writing practice tests, each with answers and detailed explanations for every question. Additionally, there is a new PERT reading test with 30 questions and answers, as well as 40 new writing exercises with answers at the end of the book.

The new writing exercises are designed to help students practice the most common grammatical and stylistic writing conventions assessed on the PERT writing exam. The explanations to the answers provide exam tips and strategies for each question type on the real exam, enabling students to correctly answer even the most difficult questions on the PERT reading and writing tests.

Unlike other PERT study guides that provide a general review of reading comprehension and writing skills, this book is focused specifically on the exact skills assessed on the PERT examination. Moreover, all the problems in the book are of the same level of difficulty and in the exact same format as those on the actual PERT examination.

The PERT Test Reading and Writing Success Study Guide is divided into three sections. The reading and writing review section covers:

1. An overview of the format and content of the PERT reading and writing tests
2. Review of the types of questions covered on the PERT reading test
3. Review of the concepts covered on the PERT writing test

The reading practice tests cover the following skills:

1. Determining the main idea
2. Establishing a thesis
3. Summarizing key points, events, or information
4. Understanding specific points
5. Stating the meaning of words or phrases in context
6. Analyzing organizational structure
7. Evaluating the function or purpose of specific sentences
8. Determining the purpose of the author
9. Deciding which evidence best serves an argument
10. Ascertaining unbiased facts or biased opinions
11. Evaluating the reasoning and effectiveness of evidence
12. Drawing conclusions and making inferences
13. Determining the relationship between two sentences
14. Understanding characters in fiction
15. Assessing the tone of a selection
16. Analyzing and comparing two texts with different styles

The writing practice tests cover the following skills:

1. Establishing and supporting a topic or theme
2. Using grammar, punctuation, and capitalization correctly
3. Subject-verb agreement
4. Verb usage and tense
5. Pronoun-antecedent agreement
6. Avoiding unclear pronoun reference
7. Correct modifier placement
8. Coordination
9. Subordination
10. Parallel structure
11. Capitalization of proper nouns
12. Providing arguments and counterarguments
13. Determining the appropriate tone and style
14. Restating and paraphrasing information
15. Understanding how to cite information correctly
16. Recognizing commonly-confused words and making the correct word choice
17. Expressing ideas clearly and concisely
18. Ascertaining the correct order of sentences in a selection
19. Synthesizing information and combining sentences
20. Using transitional and cohesive devices correctly
21. Understanding rhetorical coherence
22. Identifying sentences that do not belong in a selection

The Advantage Plus Edition also includes bonus material, such as the new PERT reading test with 30 questions and answers, as well as 40 new writing exercises with answers.

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