Physics
- The test has about 100 five-choice questions, some of
which are grouped in sets and based on materials such as diagrams, graphs,
experimental data, and descriptions of physical situations.
- The International System (SI) of units is used
predominantly in the test. A table of information representing various
physical constants and a few conversion factors among SI units is presented
in the test book.
- The test covers nine different areas of physics:
classical mechanics (20 percent); electromagnetism (18 percent); optics and
wave phenomena (9 percent); thermodynamics and statistical mechanics (10
percent); quantum mechanics (12 percent); atomic physics (10 percent);
special relativity (6 percent); and laboratory methods (6 percent). An
additional 9 percent of the test is dedicated to specialized topics.
Psychology
- The test usually has about 205 multiple-choice
questions.
- The questions are drawn from common undergraduate
psychology courses.
- The test offers only two subscores, but divides the
questions into three content categories: experimental or natural science,
including learning, language, memory, thinking, sensation and perception,
physiological psychology, ethology, and comparative psychology (40 percent);
social or social science, including clinical, abnormal, developmental,
personality, and social psychology, (43 percent); and general psychology (17
percent).
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