Chemistry Placement Exam

Welcome to the Chemistry Placement Exam Webpage. Information regarding why one would need to take the CPE and interpreting the results thereof can be found on the Main CPE webpage.

The CPE will test your knowledge of basic chemical information, the ability to do numerical problems using chemical information, and mathematical skills at the level of algebra.  The actual CPE consists of 35 questions that can be organized into following five categories:

Chemical formulas, naming compounds, and balancing equations	6 questions
Quantitative chemical problems	5 questions
Physical and chemical properties of atoms and molecules	15 questions
Chemical reactions	2 questions
Problem solving and algebra skills	7 questions

The practice examination consists of only 20 questions distributed similarly among the categories and with a difficulty level similar to or slightly higher than that of the actual examination.  The practice exam may be taken repeatedly, but the actual exam may be attempted only once.  The practice exam has no time limit, but the actual exam has a 90-minute time limit.