Placement Assessment Descriptions
Biology
- 30-minute multiple choice assessment
- Calculators are permitted
- Reviews general biological principals and basic biological topics
- Study Guide
Chemistry
- 30-minute multiple-choice assessment
- Calculators are permitted
- Covers general concepts plus specific chemistry knowledge appropriate to a comprehensive high school chemistry course.
- Study Guide
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).
- Study Guide
Computer Programming
- 30 minute multiple-choice and true/false assessments
- Calculators are not permitted.
- Tests general knowledge of the C programming language and general computer programming principles covered in a comprehensive programming course.
- Study Guide