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| Content of the AHSGE |  Any student who, at the time of the spring administration of the graduation examination, is recognized by the school as a tenth-grader and reported as such to the central office in attendance records is entitled to take the pre-graduation examination. Students need to show what they have learned in high school, with an emphasis on logic, problem solving, and other critical thinking skills. The exam is administered during a week-long period, students taking one subject-area test a day.
The Alabama's High School Graduation Exam consists of:
Reading Comprehension (Reading) Subject-Area Test
The reading subject-area test requires students to read and comprehend articles, poems, editorials, essays, manuals, catalogues, and schedules. The reading collections will range from about 600-1200 words.
Language Subject-Area Test
The language subject-area test needs students to apply correct grammar and usage, correct capitalization and punctuation, suitable word choice, correct sentence structure, and proper organizational abilities for writing or revising.
Mathematics Subject-Area Test
The mathematics subject-area test requires students to complete essential operations on algebraic expressions, to answer equations and inequalities, to apply concepts connected with functions, to apply formulas, to apply graphing techniques, to characterize problem situations, and to solve problems involving an assortment of algebraic and geometric notions. A page of formulas will be incorporated in every test booklet. Calculators will be provided for every student, though a calculator is not required in order to solve the problems.
Science Subject-Area Test
The science subject-area test requires students to apply concepts coping with the nature of science, matter, variety of life, heredity, cells, interdependence, energy, and force and motion. The Periodic Table will be provided in every test booklet. About 70% of the test is connected with biology and 30% of the test is related to physical science.
Social Studies Subject-Area Test
The social studies subject-area test requires students to know content linked to the:
• Global influence of the pre-colonial and colonial eras of the Western Hemisphere
• Formation and development of the United States
• Eras of revolution, expansion, and reform previous to the United States Civil War
• United States Civil War era
• Progress of the late 19th to the early 20th centuries
• Causes and effects of World War I
• Great Depression and World War II
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