Students interested in a graduate business program will need to draw on their quantitative reasoning skills to address program requirements and expectations.
Checkpoint measures your current command of quantitative reasoning skills across important domains to provide insight to you and your programs:
Applicants get insight on their current performance overall and in each of the domains
Programs get insight on the specific domain skills that may help you to be successful in the program
Checkpoint covers three domains: Algebra and Functions, Probability and Statistics, and Graphics Interpretation.
Algebra and Functions includes: Operations with exponents; factoring and simplifying algebraic expressions; relations, functions, equations and inequalities; solving linear and quadratic equations and inequalities; solving simultaneous equations and inequalities; setting up equations to solve word problems; and coordinate geometry. It also addresses applying algebraic reasoning and techniques in various contexts; translating information into equations and/or graphs; and using functions to express quantitative relationships to solve problems in a real-life context.
Probability and Statistics includes: Basic probability, such as probabilities of compound events and independent events; conditional probability; random variables and probability distributions, normal distributions; and counting methods, such as combinations and permutations. Topics in statistics include descriptive statistics, such as mean, median, mode, range, standard deviation, interquartile range, quartiles and percentiles. It also addresses using methods and techniques of probability; translating information into mathematical forms, equations, graphs, or charts, so that probabilistic functions and/or statistical analysis can solve problems in a real-life context.
