(2½ hours) Test of verbal reasoning and aims to assess entry-level students’ abilities in terms of the following:
• to make meaning from texts that they are likely to encounter in their studies;
• to understand words and discourse signals in their contexts;
• to identify and track academic argument;
• to understand and evaluate the evidential basis of argument;
• to extrapolate and draw inferences and conclusions from what is stated or given;
• to identify main from supporting ideas in the overall organisation of a text;
• to understand information presented visually (e.g. graphs, tables, flow-charts);
• to understand basic numerical concepts and information used in text, including basic numerical manipulations.