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Reading comprehension
The reading comprehension questions are designed to test language
proficiency in terms of
comprehension of the different types of use.
There are of three types of texts: non-fiction, journalistic and scientific
texts. The questions will test
essential grammatical skills (morphological and syntactic), possession
of a sufficiently rich
vocabulary, inferential skills, the ability to understand hierarchical
relationships and to establish
formal and semantic relations between the constituent parts of a text,
as well as the ability to infer
implied meaning and assumptions.
Non-fiction, journalistic and scientific texts may deal with
phenomena, events and problems arising
in the study of psychological, human and social sciences (e.g. history
and philosophical thought) and
current affairs.
Basic mathematics
The questions in this section will cover the following topics from the
Mathematics syllabus typically
taught in upper secondary schools.
Set theory: sets and basic set operations (union, intersection,
difference, complement and Cartesian
product).
Numerical sets: numerical sets and their properties, elementary
operations, sorting and
comparison. Absolute value. Prime numbers, decomposition into
prime factors. Greatest common
divisor and lowest common multiple. Powers and roots.
Algebraic expressions: basic algebra. Algebraic expressions.
Operations with monomials and
polynomials, remarkable products, decomposition of a polynomial
into factors.
Equations and inequalities: equations and inequalities of the first
degree. Basic information on
equations and inequalities of the second degree and systems of linear
equations.
Functions: definition of function. Qualitative graphs of elementary
functions. Fundamental
properties of functions: monotonicity, limitation, periodicity.
Invertible functions and inverse function.
Basic information on the following topics: domain, image and
counter-image of an element;
composition of functions; exponentials and logarithms.
Plane geometry: basic plane figures and their elementary properties.
Pythagoras' theorem.
Properties of similar triangles. Congruence criteria for triangles.
Perimeter and area of basic plane
figures (triangles, quadrilaterals, regular polygons and circles).
Incidence, parallelism and
perpendicularity between lines in the plane.
Analytical geometry: Cartesian coordinates in the plane. Distance
between two points and midpoint
of a segment. Straight line equations. Angular coefficient. Equation of
a straight line with one of its
points known and its angular coefficient. Equation of a straight line
with two of its points known.
Conditions of parallelism and perpendicularity. Incident, parallel and
coincident straight lines.
Biology
The questions in this section will cover the following topics from the
Biology syllabus typically taught
in upper secondary schools.
Chemical composition of living organisms: bioelements. The
properties of water. Molecules of
biological interest: carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and nucleotides.
Structure and functions of
macromolecules of biological interest: polysaccharides, nucleic acids
and proteins.
Biology of the cell: cell organisation. Morpho-functional
characteristics of eukaryotic cells. Main
cellular constituents: cell membranes, cytoplasm, mitochondria,
ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum,
Golgi apparatus, lysosomes, nucleus.
Cell cycle, reproduction, heredity: cell reproduction: mitosis and
meiosis. Chromosome kit.
Reproduction and heredity. Mendelian genetics. Classical genetics:
chromosomal theory of heredity;
sex chromosomes. Molecular genetics: DNA and genes; genetic code
and its translation. The
eukaryotic chromosome. Human genetics: transmission of mono- and
multifactorial characters;
hereditary diseases. Mutations.
Basics of human anatomy and physiology: the human organism:
support and movement functions,
nutrition, respiration, circulation, excretion; immune, endocrine and
reproductive functions. The
central nervous system: structural and functional bases.SCUOLA DI
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Verbal reasoning
Verbal reasoning questions aim to highlight the ability to solve
problems that require combining data
and knowledge in non-immediate ways and making logical deductions
with some degree of
complexity. For example, one can ask whether a certain utterance, or
its negation, is a logical
consequence of other utterances in which the terms “if”, “then”, “all”,
“none”, “some”, “at least one”
are used.
Solving some problems may also require discovering a rule or a
principle and applying it.
The questions examine: the ability to draw reliable conclusions from
given premises and to reject
incorrect solutions; the ability to discover a rule or a principle and
apply it to solve a problem.
Questions may also concern the issue of a necessary or sufficient
condition. In a certain situation
and given certain premises, for example, one can be asked to establish
whether a statement is true
or false.
Numerical reasoning
Numerical reasoning questions are designed to test the ability to
understand and process numerical,
symbolic and formal information and to ascertain mathematical
knowledge achieved in upper
secondary school studies.
The questions aim to test the ability to perform calculations to obtain a
correct answer, infer a solution
in numerical expressions, identify a rule that explains a certain
progression of numbers, understand
relationships between numbers, reason with numbers, combine
numerical relationships.
Questions may also concern the interpretation of various types of
graphical representations and
tables.
In general, these questions assess the candidate's ability to deal with
numerical concepts and to
reason with numbers.

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