Offers test-taking strategies for the civil service exam. Provides practice for improving math skills, advice on control math test anxiety and study-time stress, and career development tips. Features two complete practice tests with full answer explanations. Lessons include working with fractions, decimals, percentages, and measurement and provide practical math strategies that break down and solve problems and word problems. Also has question sets that test and reinforce skills, a glossary of math terms, additional resources in basic mathematics and two study plans.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.