Students are required to identify an error and then to correctly select an appropriate revision. The passage errors assess sentence structure, grammar and usage, and punctuation. A final set of questions measures a student's organizational and rhetorical skills. The test determines placement into a developmental English course or an English Composition I course. The college algebra test items measure algebra knowledge and skill in operations with matrices, functions, and factorials.
Basic skills require the performance of a sequence of basic operations.
Application items use these same basic operations on complex settings. Analysis items require demonstrating a conceptual understanding of the essential principles and relationships that are relevant to each of the math skills. This test results in placement into the appropriate skill building mathematical course or approval for enrollment into a college-level mathematical course. No appointment is necessary. Students will read the instructions and questions on the computer monitor and will select answers using the computer keyboard.