• Part I: No Calculator

  •  12 questions in 30 minutes

  • Worth 25% of mathematics test

• Part II: Calculator

  • 30 questions in 90 minutes

  • Worth 75% of mathematics test

• Learners may not use a dictionary, a thesaurus, language translator, or other reference material for both tests.  These specific tools will be deactivated on the online test platform

AlphaPlus has compared the CAEC to GED: 

CAEC mathematics assesses a more condensed set of math skills and knowledge than the 2002 Canadian GED. Questions on the CAEC sample test are modeled very closely to those on the Alberta Provincial Achievement Tests (PATs), including some questions that were directly repurposed for the CAEC sample test. 

Math Part I:

Relative to the GED®, the calculator-free section of the CAEC is half the length and value (25 questions down to 12 and 50% down to 25%). Part I contains no word problems, only expressions to be simplified or equations to be evaluated. 

Math Part II:

Many of the questions in Part II of the CAEC are similar to those found on the GED, both in terms of content and question design. Topics include area, average, chart reading, costs, discounts, rates, scale and proportion, speed/distance/time, and wages. Like the GED, many of the questions involve identifying relevant information from textual passages, diagrams, data tables, charts, and graphs, and then sequencing multiple operations.  The more abstract content found in the GED is not present. There are no questions about quadratics, lines on a Cartesian plane, inequalities, laws of exponents, scientific notation, or properties of lines or angles.

Part II of the CAEC will require answers rounded to specified precision – most often to the tenths or hundredths. 

• It may be possible to request accommodations to write the Math Part 1 test as a paper booklet submission, rather than online. 

• After the test is written by the learner, the exam invigilators would then enter in the learner's answers into regular online test platform.

  • The learner may NOT request to have their written CAEC math test rescored by the CAEC testing service if they believe that their score does not accurately reflect their level of achievement.  Only the online submission will be considered.

  • Exam invigilators are directed to enter answers online exactly as written, but if a question will not allow them to enter a decimal, they will enter everything until the decimal, even if rounding rules would make them change the answer. For example, if the answer provided by the learner was 51.9 and the question will not allow to enter a decimal, the invigilator would put 51 and not 52.

• It is NOT possible to switch on exam day from computer-based to paper-based.  Accommodations MUST be requested and approved in advance.

• More details about Learner Accommodations can be found on the General Resource page