ACE Personal Trainer?

[augustusachilles]

Hi, I'm taking the ACE Personal Trainer Certification test this Saturday and want to know how many questions I have to get correct to pass the test. I know there is 125 multiple choice questions and a written response portion, and was wondering if anyone knew what the minimum passing score is?

[kfisherx]

I am almost positive it is 80% or better. Good luck with the test.

[augustusachilles]

thanks for helping, I made a mistake though... it's 150 multiple choice questions for anyone else who reads this.

I have one more question, how do I calculate body fat percentage when given a persons age, gender, height, weight, lean body mass, and skinfold measurements (without looking at the body fat percentage charts)?

For example: female, age 27, weight 125 pounds, lean body mass 90 pounds, sum of three skinfolds 73mm. How do I go about calculating body fat percentage?

[kfisherx]

She is 125 lbs with 90 lbs of LBM which means the rest is Fat. So 35 lbs of fat. I think that is 28%. 125x.28=35.

(please someone check me here)


Don't know why you would need to know skinfolds, height or gender for this. Perhaps someone can educate me on this?

[perrogrande007]

Ding ding ding! Correct! 28%

Sorry, I have no prizes

Possibly just trying to put trickery in the problem with the extra numbers?

[augustusachilles]

Ahhh that makes sense. Thanks for the help I appreciate it