Your educational connection begins with an assessment of your basic skills. In addition, some students my be asked to complete a writing sample. Kent Trumbull offers several courses designed to improve academic skills.
All courses receive a letter grade and are used to compute a student's grade point average.
To succeed in college, you must be able to comprehend and to study textbooks, lecture notes, and other materials. For the reading assessment, you will be asked to read several passages and then answer questions about them. Your writing must be logical, organized, and coherent. For the writing assessment, you will be shown essays and be asked to correct them so that each passage reflects standard English usage. The computer screen will allow you to move back and forth between each essay and the questions before you determine your final answers both on the reading and on the writing assessments.