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The program covers the following subject areas: Natural Sciences, Perceptual Ability, Reading Comprehension, and Quantitative Reasoning.

1. Natural Sciences
This course will include review lectures of the first-year collegiate biology, general chemistry, and organic chemistry.

2. Perceptual Ability
This course is designed to improve students’ spatial visualization skills, especially their ability to interpret two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects. Lectures, demonstrations, exercises, assignments on angle-discrimination, block counting, paper folding, form development, and object visualization will help deliver the course contents to students. Students will also be trained how to use their hands and imagination to manipulate invisible objects.


3. Quantitative Reasoning
This course covers basic mathematical concepts including algebra, geometry, word problems, and trigonometry.  Students will learn how to read and use quantitative data, manipulate numerical relationships,  apply numeracy and quantitative reasoning skills to solve problems without a calculator.

4. Reading Comprehension
This course focuses on improving students’ abilities in reading comprehension, retaining information, ascertaining the structure and purpose of the reading passage. During the course, students will be given large amounts of fairly long and technical reading.  Techniques and strategies on reading speed and comprehension will be taught to increase rates of reading without reducing comprehension and retention.