ACER Mathematics Assessment for Incoming Students (AMAIS)

Contact us

Australian Council for Educational Research

19 Prospect Hill Road Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia

T: +61 3 9277 5502
F: +61 3 9277 5757
E: amais@acer.edu.au

What is AMAIS?

The ACER Mathematics Assessment for Incoming Students (AMAIS) is an online diagnostic test designed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

AMAIS assesses Mathematical knowledge and provides useful diagnostic information in the form of individual and group reports and has been developed to assist with the placement of students into appropriate mathematics streams at pre-tertiary and tertiary level.   

AMAIS is a valid and secure assessment tool that assesses competency in six broad content areas:

• Algebra
• Geometry and Measurement
• Functions and Graphs
• Number
• Probability and Statistics
• Rates of Change and Calculus

Why use AMAIS?

Selection and placement

• identifies strengths and weaknesses in mathematics knowledge
• supports course selection and student placement decisions

Ease of access 

• available worldwide
• complete flexibility with testing date and time

Quality of content 

• sound psychometric properties
• content is consistent with most international final year secondary level mathematics curricula
• appropriate readability

Reporting

• individual diagnostic reports
• group reports identify and summarise strengths and weaknesses