The ETS® Proficiency Profile is required for all undergraduate applicants to Terry College. It is a standardized, multiple-choice assessment of academic skills (reading, writing, critical thinking, and mathematics) developed through General Education Areas I-IV of the core curriculum.

• Sign up by contacting the UGA Testing Center (706-542-3183)
• Cost is $40.00 and may be taken a maximum of twice while enrolled at UGA.

What is the ETS® Proficiency Profile?

The ETS® Proficiency Profile (formerly the Terry MAPP) is a test of undergraduate reading, writing, critical thinking, and math skills. It includes material usually covered in courses taken during the first two years of college — the “core curriculum” or the “general education requirements.”

Students will be allotted 40 minutes to complete 36 multiple-choice questions. The questions measure college-level reading, college-level writing, critical thinking, and mathematics.

The questions do not ask for recall of specific information learned in individual courses such as a psychology, history, biology or English. The questions do assume, however, that a student who has taken general education courses in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences will be better able to read the materials in the test and answer the questions than a student who has not taken such courses.

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What subjects are covered?

Questions are from three academic areas:

1. The humanities materials include selections (poetry, and fiction and nonfiction prose) from classical literature and from American and British literature. The materials also include discussions of key terms in the humanities. Designs or illustrations are also used as well as discussions of painting, music, philosophical issues, and materials by and about women and minorities.
2. The social sciences materials present topics and issues that might be discussed in a general education course in history, economics, political science, psychology, anthropology, sociology, or indeed in any general education social science course. The materials may draw on more than one of the social science fields in their presentation of a topic. Social science topics of particular relevance to woman and minorities are represented in the materials, which include reading selection, graphs, and tables.
3. The natural sciences materials are often interdisciplinary in nature. That is, they present topics and issues that might be discussed in a general education course in biology, chemistry, or physics. In addition, the materials may present experimental findings in ways that are familiar to a student who has taken any kind of general education science course. Where materials are not interdisciplinary, topics and issues in biology will receive more emphasis than those in chemistry and physics. The materials include reading selections, graphs, and/or charts.

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