Texas Success Initiative – TSI Assessment Information and Practice Test Questions:
The Texas Success Initiative (TSI Assessment) is a special version of the college placement test for students testing in the State of Texas.
All of the skills assessed on the TSI exam are the same as those assessed on the CPT, so use our practice exercises on this site to help you prepare for the TSI test.
Texas Success Initiative – TSI Assessment Books
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What is the format of the Texas Success Initiative?
The Texas Success Initiative (TSI test) is similar to the CPT in many ways, although the exact contents of the TSI exam are a bit different.
For the TSI, you will see tests in math, reading, and writing.
It is computer-adaptive, so questions should get more difficult as you go along, provided that you are answering them correctly.
If you are getting easier questions, then you should take extreme care. This usually means that you have already answered some questions incorrectly.
Easy questions are worth fewer points, meaning that your overall score will be less.
Texas Success Initiative – TSI Assessment Math:
The TSI Test will have math questions like the CPT.
However, the exam also has questions on statistics and probability, which are not included on the CPT.
The TSI does not have trigonometry questions, while the CPT does.
Texas Success Initiative – TSI Assessment Reading:
The reading part of the TSI Test has passages that are slightly longer and that contain more questions.
This Texas exam also has reading passages from literary texts, like those on the college placement test.
In addition, there is s a section in which you have to compare and contrast two passages on the same topic.
These compare and contrast reading passages are also included on the college placement test.
TSI Writing:
The writing test assesses the same of aspects of grammar as the CPT, but the format of the TSI writing test is a bit different.
On part 1 of the TSI writing test, you will be asked which sentences can be added to, combined within, or removed from a passage without affecting its meaning.
For this part of the exam, you will also be asked to place sentences within a paragraph in their most logical position.
The second part of the TSI is the same as the CPT test. This part of the TSI exam has questions that ask you to find and correct errors, followed by questions asking you to transform, or rewrite, sentences.
The questions on all parts of the TSI are multiple choice.
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