The “Fundamental Learning Skills Test,” aiming to measure the abstract thinking and reasoning skills of the candidates, is applied in this exam. This test consists of two categories; “reasoning” and “quantitative skills.” The Fundamental Learning Test does not involve questions from the fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, geography, or history. The test includes as few language-specific expressions as possible; the questions are explained in four alternative languages, two of which always being Turkish and English.

The reasoning test includes questions that will challenge the candidates to decodify numbers with words, to decodify numbers with shapes, to match shapes, to complete matching shapes, to identify divergent shapes (shape matrix), to rotate shapes, to identify shape patterns, to solve functions in shapes, to solve scaling problems, to identify numerical patterns associated with shapes, to identify numerical patterns, to identify the relationship between two numbers, to calculate, to use addition and subtraction skills, to identify the relationship between numbers, to integrate shapes into squares, to count cubes, to trace painted surfaces on cubes and to count lines.

The quantitative skills test includes questions that will challenge the candidates’ skills in geometry (special triangles, angle bisector, median, quadrangles, prisms pyramids in circles etc.) mathematics I (numbers, division-divisibility, factorial, rational and decimal numbers, basic disequilibria, numerical value, exponential numbers, root numbers, factorization etc.) and mathematics II (polynomial, quadratic equations, parabola, trigonometry, multiplication symbols, logarithms, complex numbers, limits, derivatives, integrals, determinants, etc.).