The Florida PERT common placement test

The PERT is not a pass/fail test. Instead, institutions set point levels that determine course placement.
It's crucial you do well on the PERT exam to avoid being placed into remedial college courses because:

• You can't enroll in regular college classes until you complete and pass your remedial courses so...
• ...they can increase the time it takes to earn your degree by a couple semesters.
• They cost just as much as regular college courses but...
• ...they DO NOT count towards earning a college degree!

None of the P.E.R.T. tests are timed but students often have the most trouble on the math test. Check out this article for more general information about the PERT common placement test.

The Postsecondary Readiness Competencies (PRCs) are the skills identified as crucial to college readiness in reading, writing and mathematics. The PRCs were identified by a panel of FL high school and college faculty members.

For the math section, you'll need to demonstrate an ability to:

• Use arithmetic operations on real numbers such as integers, fractions and decimals
• Apply basic number theory including prime and composite numbers, factors, divisibility, LCM and GCF
• Apply percentages, rates, ratios and proportions and use estimation and approximation to solve problems
• Evaluate and simplify algebraic expressions using order of operations
• Define variables then formulate and solve equations
• Solve quadratic equations and factor polynomial expressions
• Simplify radical and exponential expressions
• Translate between linear equations and their graphs in the coordinate plane
• Solve system of equations

Our free PERT math practice tests are meant to help you prepare to take Florida’s PERT math placement test. Questions presented here cover some of the topics you may encounter on the PERT exam. They are meant to be of equal or greater difficulty than the ones presented on the actual exam. Therefore, you should only use these practice tests as a general tool to gauge your readiness in addition to your other study materials.

You may take each test as many times as you like.