As you prepare for your placement assessments, it is critical that you take the appropriate time to study for your assessments. The faculty has compiled a guide with valuable resources regarding the subjects of your placement assessment. Please review the linked Study Guide . For Specifics for English and math, please scroll down for the individual study guides.

Biology

  • 30 minute multiple choice assessment
  • Calculators  are permitted
  • Reviews general biological principals and basic biological topics

Chemistry

  • 30 minute multiple choice assessment
  • Calculators are permitted
  • Covers general concepts plus specific chemistry knowledge appropriate to a comprehensive high school chemistry course

English

  • Two part multiple choice computer-based assessment
  • The Next-Generation Reading test assesses the test-taker's ability to derive meaning from a range of texts and to determine the meaning of words and phrases in short and extended contexts. Passages on the test cover a range of content areas, writing modes, and complexities. Both single and paired passages are included. Four broad knowledge and skills categories are assessed - information and ideas, rhetoric, synthesis, and vocabulary.
  • The Next-Generation Writing test evaluates a test-taker's ability to revise and edit multiparagraph text. Questions cover two broad knowledge and skills categories, each containing three subcategories:
    • Expression of Ideas | Development, Organization, Effective Language Use
    • Standard English Conventions | Sentence Structure, Usage, Punctuation
  • Study Guide: Writing
  • Study Guide: Reading

Mathematics

  • Two part multiple choice computer-based assessment
  • Hand held calculators are not permitted
  • The Next-Generation Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics (QAS) assesses the following knowledge and skills – rational numbers, ratio and proportional relationships, exponents, algebraic expressions, linear equations, linear applications and graphs, probability sets, descriptive statistics, and geometry concepts
  • Next-Generation Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF) assesses the following knowledge and skills – linear equations, linear applications and graphs, factoring, quadratics, functions, radical and rational equations, exponential and logarithmic equations, and trigonometry
  • Study Guide: Next-Generation Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics (QAS)
  • Study Guide: Next-Generation Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF)

Physics

  • 30 minute multiple choice assessment
  • Calculators are not required
  • Tests conceptual knowledge in the areas of kinematics (position, velocity, and acceleration one-dimensional motion) and dynamics (adding forces, collisions, Newton's Laws)

Computer Programming

  • 30 minute multiple choice assessment
  • Calculators are not permitted
  • Tests general knowledge of the C programming language and general computer programming principles covered comprehensive programming course