IMAT test format

The questions, in the form of short texts of scientific non-fiction or classic and contemporary fiction, or short current affairs texts published in newspapers and generalist or specialized magazines, evaluate the ability to understand texts written in English of different nature and with different purposes. different communications. The following skills are also specifically tested: understanding abstract, uncommon or specialized vocabulary in real contexts; identify the phenomena of textual cohesion and coherence; extract and infer specific information from the text. Again starting from short texts of various types and themes, the skills acquired in previous studies and the knowledge of general culture, including those of a supranational context, or of topics subject to contemporary public debate will be verified. In particular, the quizzes are used to evaluate: the ability to orient oneself in the space and time represented, or to place significant historical-cultural phenomena in space and time; knowledge of the main national and international institutions; the understanding of phenomena relating to the legal, economic and citizenship fields;

The quizzes evaluate the ability to logically complete an argument, in a manner consistent with the premises. These premises are stated in symbolic or verbal form, and concern cases or problems, even of an abstract nature, the solution of which requires the adoption of different forms of logical reasoning;

The chemistry of living things; the biological importance of weak interactions; the organic molecules present in organisms and their respective functions; the role of enzymes; the cell as the basis of life; cell theory, cell dimensions, the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell, animal and plant, viruses; the cell membrane: structure and functions, transport across the membrane; cellular structures and their specific functions; cell cycle and cellular reproduction: mitosis and meiosis, chromosome complement and chromosome maps; bioenergetics; the energy currency of cells: ATP; oxidation-reduction reactions in living things; energy processes: photosynthesis, glycolysis, aerobic respiration and fermentation; reproduction and inheritance; life cycles; sexual and asexual reproduction; Mendelian genetics: Mendel’s laws and their applications; classical genetics: chromosomal theory of inheritance – inheritance models; molecular genetics: structure and duplication of DNA, the genetic code, protein synthesis; the DNA of prokaryotes; the structure of the eukaryotic chromosome; genes and the regulation of gene expression; human genetics: mono- and multifactorial transmission of traits; autosomal and X-linked hereditary diseases; biotechnology: recombinant DNA technology and its applications; heredity and environment; mutations; natural and artificial selection; evolutionary theories; the genetic basis of evolution; anatomy and physiology of animals and humans; animal tissues; anatomy and physiology of human systems and systems and related interactions; homeostasis.

Measurements: direct and indirect measurements, fundamental and derived quantities, physical dimensions of quantities, knowledge of the decimal metric system and of the CGS, Technical (or Practical) (ST) and International (SI) Systems of Units of Measurement, of the units of measurement (names and relationships between fundamental and derived units), multiples and submultiples (names and values); kinematics: kinematic quantities, various motions with particular attention to uniform and uniformly accelerated rectilinear motion, uniform circular motion, harmonic motion (for all motions: definition and relationships between the connected kinematic quantities); dynamics: vectors and operations on vectors, forces, moments of forces with respect to a point, moment of a pair of forces, vector composition of forces, definitions of mass and weight, acceleration of gravity, density and specific weight, law of universal gravitation, 1st, 2nd and 3rd principles of dynamics; work, kinetic energy, potential energies; principle of conservation of energy, impulse and momentum, principle of conservation of momentum; fluid mechanics pressure, and its units of measurement (not only in the SI system), Archimedes’ principle, Pascal’s principle, Stevino’s law, Archimedes’ principle; thermology, thermodynamics: thermometry and calorimetry, heat capacity and specific heat, heat propagation modes, changes of state and latent heats, ideal gas laws, first and second law of thermodynamics; electrostatics and electrodynamics: Coulomb’s law; electric field and potential, dielectric constant, capacitors, capacitors in series and parallel, direct current, Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s principles, electrical resistance and resistivity, electrical resistors in series and parallel, work, power, Joule effect, generators, electromagnetic induction and alternating currents, effects of electric currents (thermal, chemical and magnetic);

Numerical sets and algebra: natural, integer, rational, real numbers, ordering and comparison, order of magnitude and scientific notation, operations and their properties, proportions and percentages, powers with integer exponent, rational and their properties, radicals and their properties , logarithms (in base 10 and in base e) and their properties, notes on combinatorics, algebraic expressions, polynomials, notable products, nth power of a binomial, factorization of polynomials, algebraic fractions, algebraic equations and inequalities of first and second degree, systems of equations; functions: fundamental notions on functions and their graphic representations (domain, codomain, study of the sign, continuity, maximums and minimums, increase and decrease, etc.); elementary functions: integer and fractional algebraic, exponential, logarithmic, goniometric, composite functions and inverse functions, goniometric equations and inequalities; geometry: polygons and their properties, circumference and circle, measurements of lengths, surfaces and volumes, isometries, similarities and equivalences in the plane, geometric places, measurement of angles in degrees and radians, sine, cosine, tangent of an angle and their notable values , goniometric formulas, resolution of triangles, Cartesian reference system in the plane, distance of two points and midpoint of a segment, equation of the line, conditions of parallelism and perpendicularity, distance of a point from a line, equation of the circle, of the parabola , of the hyperbola, of the ellipse and their representation in the Cartesian plane, Pythagorean theorem, Euclid’s theorems (first and second); probability and statistics: frequency distributions depending on the type of character and main graphical representations, notion of random experiment and event, probability and frequency.