THEA, the Texas Higher Education Assessment, is a score-reporting program for Texas students to measure their readiness for college courses by testing their reading, mathematics, and writing skills that incoming freshman students should obtain before entering a college-level course in public Texas colleges. I was exempted from taking the THEA test because I passed and obtained higher scores of 2200 for my English and Math TAKS scores in my sophomore year.
What does the SAT test cover?
The SAT test has 3 sections: Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing. The Reading section takes 70 minutes and has 3 sections. It has sentence completion questions where they test the student's vocabulary and sentence structure …show more content…
skills. They also have passage-based questions to test the student's comprehension skills. The Mathematic section takes 70 minutes and has 3 sections. They have multiple-choice questions and student-produced questions where the student must solve and grid in their answers. The Writing section takes 60 minutes and has 3 sections. They have 3 types of multiple choice questions: improving sentences, identifying sentence errors, and improving paragraphs. Also the student must write an essay/response to a given topic. To prepare for the SAT test, the student can buy SAT Study guides booklets for each section of the SAT test and study as early as possible. They can also attend SAT Prep courses and take practice tests.
What does the ACT cover? The ACT test 4 sections: English, Math, Reading, and Science Reasoning.
They also have an option to take an Optional Writing Test. The English section has 75 questions which tests the student's English and rhetorical skills and has a time limit of 45 minutes. The Mathematical section has 60 questions which tests the student's mathematical skills they have obtained from Pre-K to 12th grade. It has a time limit of 60 minutes. The Reading section has 40 questions which test the student's reading comprehension and has a time limit of 35 minutes. The Science Reasoning section has 40 questions that tests the student's analysis, evaluation, reasoning, and problem-solving skills and has a time limit of 35 minutes. The Optional Writing test section gives the student 1 prompt to test their writing skills and has a time limit of 30 minutes. To prepare for the ACT test, the student can buy their ACT Study Guide booklet for each section and study it as soon as possible. They also offer ACT Prep courses for the students and take practice …show more content…
tests.
What does the THEA test cover? The THEA Test has 3 sections: Reading, Mathematics, and Writing.
The Reading section has 40 multiple-choice reading questions from reading selections that the student might encounter in their freshmen year of college. The Math section has 50 multiple-choice questions that cover the following areas: fundamental mathematics, algebra, geometry, and problem solving. The Writing section has 2 sections. The 1st section tests the student's ability to write an essay/response on a given topic. The 2nd section has multiple-choice questions that test the student's ability to distinguish writing elements. To prepare for the THEA test, the student can study their The Official THEA Test Study Guide Booklet and take their practice
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The Differences of the ACT, SAT, and THEA test The ACT Test has 4 sections: English, Math, Reading, and Science Reasoning. It is curriculum based. The test doesn't have analogies, math grid-ins, and no penalties for incorrect answers. Also the career interest inventory cost is $29 (without the writing section) or $43 (with the writing section). The SAT Test has 3 sections: Critical Reading, Math Reasoning, and Writing. It has math grid-ins and penalties for incorrect answers. The no career interest inventory costs $41.50. The THEA test has 3 sections: Reading, Mathematics, and Writing. It costs $29 to take it and students cane be exempted from taken it if they scored 19~23 on both English and Math ACT tests, or a combined score of 1070 (or higher) with both math and verbal SAT tests. Also the student can have a minimum mathematic score of 2200 and minimum language score of 2200 on their TAKS test.