These skill checks contain materials designed to help students and counselors determine whether students have the math, reading, and writing abilities needed to participate in various vocational education courses. Dealt with in the individual skill checks are the basic skills considered necessary for courses providing job training for the following occupations: burglar alarm installer, clerical worker, data entry operator, electronic assembly technician, hospital service worker, industrial plastics worker, landscape gardener, medical/dental receptionist, office worker, retail salesworker, telecommunications technician, ward clerk, auto body repairer, and bank teller. Each skill check contains a series of exercises designed to assess students' math, reading, and writing abilities. Among those types of exercises typically appearing in the skill checks are activities that involve completing forms, making calculations, reading meters and indicators, locating information appearing in technical drawings, and answering questions based on technical text and instructions. (MN)