Frederick Community College, like Montgomery, has had success exempting local public school students from its math placement test if they receive final grades of at least B in relevant high school ...

Some campuses are sticking with the traditional placement tests but ramping up preparation. This year, the Community College of Denver published a 20-page workbook for students to review the ...

The College Placement Test is a requirement for Charlotte High School students who wish to take dual enrollment courses. Dual enrollment classes, available through Edison Community College to ...

The U.S. community college course-placement system is a mess. That includes the many well-regarded two-year colleges in the Washington area. You want to stop reading now, don't you? My page-view ...

With community colleges increasingly seen as an educational bargain, it’s worthwhile taking a closer look at Accuplacer (“How a Little-Known Standardized Test Harms Community College Students ...

More local college students have been identified as needing in-depth academic help as a result of a new college placement exam rolled out statewide. The new Texas Success Initiative assessment, or ...

The Community College Research Center at Columbia University's Teachers College released the two studies Tuesday. “We find that placement tests do not yield strong predictions of how students will ...

He was good enough to get through basic classes, but not good enough to think he could pass a community college placement test.Just before his senior year, though, he learned about a new course ...

The more selective the college, the less likely a student is to take a placement test. The idea is that those students have already proved they’re ready, through high school grades and scores on ...

If they plan to apply to or transfer to a CSU campus, they too will be encouraged to take the writing course, though they would still have to take a CSU or community college placement test as freshmen ...

The College Board offers four Accuplacer ESL tests – language use, listening, reading and sentence skills – which are each scored on a range of 20 to 120. The essay portion, WritePlacer ESL ...

By Amelia Pak-Harvey [email protected] BEDFORD — Middlesex Community College student William Russell, 20, wants to pursue criminal justice in school, eventually transferring to UMass … ...