Complete California High School Proficiency Exam study guide, prepared by our dedicated team of exam experts!
This study guide will help you:
- Practice with 2 complete practice question sets (over 300 questions)
- Make a CHSPE study plan and study schedule
- Learn faster
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses quickly
- Increase your score with multiple choice strategies from exam experts
- Avoid common mistakes on a test
- Increase your vocabulary fast with powerful learning strategies
Over 300 questions, including
- Reading comprehension
- Sentence structure
- Punctuation
- English grammar
- Basic math
- Fractions
- Algebra
- Decimals
- Probability
Geometry
- Statistics
Review and tutorials on all CHSPE topics – hundreds of pages of tutorials!
Why not do everything you can to get the best score on the CHSPE?
Contents
Getting Started
How this study guide is organized 9
The CHSPE Study Plan 9
Making a Study Schedule 10
Reading
Self-Assessment 20
Answer Key 29
Help with Reading Comprehension 33
Main Idea and Supporting Details 36
Drawing Inferences And Conclusions 40
Meaning From Context 43
Vocabulary Self-Assessment 46
Answer Key 52
Help with Building your Vocabulary 54
How to Write an Essay
Formulating a Thesis 67
Common Essay Mistakes 1 70
Common Essay Mistakes 2 72
Writing Concisely 74
Language Arts
Self-Assessment 78
Answer Key 89
English Grammar and Punctuation 92
Capitalization 92
Punctuation 94
Hyphens 95
Apostrophes 97
Commas 98
Quotation Marks 100
Multiple Choice – Verb Tense 102
Common English Usage Mistakes 119
Subject Verb Agreement 126
Mathematics
Self-Assessment 137
Answer Key 146
Fraction Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts 150
Decimal Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts 155
Percent Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts 156
Exponents – a Quick Tutorial 157
Basic Math Multiple Choice 159
How to Solve Word Problems 163
Types of Word Problems 166
Algebraic Equations 175
Ratios 177
Cartesian & Coordinate Plane 181
Pythagorean Geometry 186
Scale drawings 188
Quadrilaterals 190
Practice Test Questions Set 1
Answer Key 250
Practice Test Questions Set 2
Answer Key 325
Conclusion
D.D. –
Very Helpful
The practice tests were just like the real Test and I felt like it prepared me well to take the test. Probably wouldn’t have done as well as I did without it.
Anon –
Very helpful book
S. –
Okay
M –
Good book…Helpful with all my studies..I would recommend this study guide to all that are trying to pass there chspe