The Get Ready Guide For The Bergen Academies Admission Test THIRD EDITION: Completely Updated With New Essay Section And BCA Level Questions And Full Length Practice Test

Book Synopsis: The Bergen County Academies is one of the best high schools in the world, and every resident of Bergen County has a chance of becoming a BCA student. I wrote this book to help you do just that. The Get Ready Guide contains 12 chapters that cover all the math and essay topics and tricks you will need to know for the test. Emphasis throughout the book and in chapter 11 is given to solving problems without using a calculator because the use of calculators is not allowed on the Bergen Academies admission test.

This new third edition of The Get Ready Guide from Gouda BCA has:

1. A completely new essay section that covers the structure of the essay, important writing techniques, and important writing tricks. The essay section covers organization, clarity, word choice, transitions, grammar, and language. Also in this new section are sample essays with detailed commentary and step by step examples on each paragraph.
2. A BCA level practice sheet that is answered in details.
3. A full-length BCA math test that is identical in level and format to the actual BCA practice tests. All this is in addition to the 2000 practice questions from the past edition. Be sure to email us after buying the book for free videos, extra practice, and complimentary essay revision.

Some topics presented in this book are:

CHAPTER 1 THE BASIC STUFF

1. Types of Numbers
2. Place Value
3. Expanded Form
4. Ordering Numbers
5. Rounding Whole Numbers
6. Divisibility Tests
7. Commutative Property
8. Associative Property
9. Distributive Property
10. Adding & Subtracting Zero
11. Multiplying & Dividing by Zero
12. Multiplying & Dividing by One
13. Factors of a Number
14. Prime Factorization
15. Multiples of a Number
16. Exponents
17. Square Roots (Radicals)
18. Factorial Notation
19. Order of Operations
20. The Number Line
21. The Absolute Value
22. Adding & Subtracting with Negative Numbers
23. Multiplying & Dividing with Negative Numbers
24. Coordinates on a Grid

CHAPTER 2 FRACTIONS

1. What is a Fraction?
2. Improper Fractions
3. Mixed Numbers
4. Comparing Fractions
5. Greatest Common Factor (Sometimes called the Greatest Common Divisor)
6. Least Common Multiple (Sometimes called the Lowest Common Denominator)
7. Multiplying or Dividing the Numerator & Denominator by the Same Number
8. The Simplest Form of a Fraction (Also called The Lowest Term)
9. Reciprocal
10. Converting Mixed Numbers to Improper Fractions
11. Converting Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers
12. Converting a Fraction to a Decimal
13. Adding and Subtracting Fractions
14. Adding and Subtracting Mixed Numbers
15. Multiplying Fractions and Fractions
16. Multiplying Fractions and Whole Numbers
17. Multiplying Mixed Numbers
18. Dividing Fractions
19. Simplifying Complex Fraction

CHAPTER 3 DECIMALS

1. Place Values of Decimal Numbers
2. Expanded Form of a Decimal Number
3. Adding Decimals
4. Subtracting Decimals
5. Comparing Decimal Numbers
6. Rounding Decimal Numbers
7. Estimating Sums and Differences
8. Multiplying Decimal Numbers
9. Dividing Decimals and Whole Numbers
10. Dividing Decimals by Decimals

CHAPTER 4 RATIO & PROPORTION

CHAPTER 5 PERCENTS

CHAPTER 6 STATISTICS

CHAPTER 7 PROBABILITY

CHAPTER 8 SEQUENCES

CHAPTER 9 BASIC ALGEBRA & WORD PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 10 GEOMETRY

CHAPTER 11 SEE YOU LATER CALCULATOR

CHAPTER 12 THE ESSAY

BCA PRACTICE SHEET WITH DETAILED ANSWERS

FULL LENGTH BCA PRACTICE TEST

BASIC CONCEPTS MATH PRACTICE

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