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WorkKeys Applied Math Practice Test: 25 Free Questions, Levels 3 to 7

Applied Math is 34 questions in 55 minutes, and you can use a calculator and a formula sheet. This set gives you 25 questions spread across Levels 3 to 7, with the working for every answer.

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New questions every time you start. Come back as often as you like.

The real WorkKeys math test

A job skills test. It counts toward ACT’s National Career Readiness Certificate.

Questions

34, all multiple choice

Source: Applied Math, Technical manual

Time

55 minutes (70 in Spanish)

Source: Info for examinees

Calculator

Allowed. Bring a permitted one, or use the Desmos calculator in the online test.

Source: ACT calculator policy

Scoring

Levels 3 to 7 (scale scores 65 to 90)

Source: Scale score guide

Checked October 20, 2026 against act.org.

These are GED-style questions, sorted into Levels 3 to 7 by our reading of ACT’s level descriptions. They aren’t real WorkKeys questions, and the set gives no level score.

WorkKeys Applied Math: 25 questions

Questions
25
Timer
None
No calculator
None

New questions every time you start. Do this set as many times as you like.

  • Check each answer as you go and read the working before the next question.
  • The calculator and formula sheet in the toolbar are the GED ones, so they may not match the WorkKeys ones.

No account or email needed.

What’s on WorkKeys Applied Math

ACT builds Applied Math around the math you need at work. The questions run across five levels, and each level adds harder skills. Here’s what ACT lists for each one:

The five Applied Math levels, what ACT says the questions ask, and the questions at each level in this set
LevelWhat the questions askIn this set
Level 3One step with whole numbers, everyday fraction, decimal and percent conversions, money and time5
Level 4One or two steps, averages, basic ratios and rates, fractions and mixed numbers, a basic chart or graph5
Level 5Several steps: unlike fractions, comparing deals, perimeter, circumference and area, discounts, markups and tax5
Level 6More setup: reverse percents, multi-step conversions, area with a formula worked backward, volume of boxes, the right equation5
Level 7The hardest: ratios with fractions, volumes of spheres, cylinders and cones, weighted averages, spread5
Source: ACT WorkKeys Applied Math

ACT doesn’t say how many questions each level gets, so this set gives each one 5. Which level a question sits at is our reading of ACT’s list.

The catch? A few skills have no questions here: money and time conversions, making change, plain decimal arithmetic, perimeter, multi-step unit conversions, production rates, and spotting a mistake in someone’s math. Our questions also use everyday settings, while ACT writes its questions around work.

Applied Math and your career certificate

Applied Math is one of three tests for ACT’s National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC). The other two are Graphic Literacy and Workplace Documents. Your certificate depends on the level you reach on all three:

NCRC certificate levels and the WorkKeys level each needs on all three tests
CertificateLevel needed on all three tests
Platinum6
Gold5
Silver4
Bronze3
Source: ACT WorkKeys NCRC

So your lowest of the three sets your certificate. ACT says level scores are often used in hiring and promotion decisions (WorkKeys scores). And since May 2026, adult education programs can also use Applied Math to report math progress (Federal Register).

WorkKeys math vs GED math

You get a calculator and a formula sheet for all of Applied Math, though ACT says every problem can be done by hand (test manual). Every question is multiple choice. The GED has five question types and a short no-calculator part.

Bottom line: the bigger difference is algebra. GED math is more than half algebra, while Applied Math’s skill list has no factoring, quadratics or functions. It sticks to fractions, percents, rates, measurement and averages.

Free Applied Math practice from ACT

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Coach Crissy

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Coach Crissy teaches the video lessons behind the BooknBoost GED math course, working through GED-style problems on camera: ratios and proportions, percent and interest, mean, median and mode, slope, and the geometry students meet on test day.

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