Accuplacer Student Guide to Placement Testing at Manchester Community College Assessment testing at MCC will help you to identify your academic strengths and needs so that you can plan an appropriate schedule of course work. The test will give you information about your skills in writing, reading, and mathematics, and will tell you at what level you need to begin your college studies. The test is comprised of two parts. The first part of the test is a writing sample. Students will be asked to read a short essay then respond in a well written essay to a question about what they have read.
Students have up to one hour to compose their essays.
You will read the instructions and questions on the computer monitor and will select your answers using the computer keyboard. This test is designed to measure how well you understand what you read. It contains 20 questions. Some are of the sentence relationship type in which you must choose how sentences are related. Other questions refer to reading passages of varying lengths.