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Once students are accepted, the next step in
the enrollment process at YCCC is to attend your assigned Placement Assessment
and Registration session.
There are two possible waivers from the
placement assessment:
1) Students who show sufficiently high SAT
verbal (550 or more) and math (525 or more) scores which are not more
than two years old;
2) Students who have another college
transcript with an English and a Math course (100 Level or higher) with a grade
of C or better.
Our placement assessment is a
computer assessment that is not timed. Students answer questions in the areas of arithmetic,
elementary algebra, reading comprehension, and sentence skills.
Participants are not allowed to use a calculator on the math sections of the
assessment except where certain specific problems are determined acceptable for
use of a calculator. I the case of these problems an onscreen calculator will be
made available.
While no preparation is necessary to take
the assessment, it should be taken seriously. The results of the assessment are
used to determine which courses are most appropriate for you to take so that you
will not be taking courses that are either too easy or too difficult for you.
Placement test results may require you to take introductory developmental or
refresher courses in math and writing and may result in an extended course of
study.
We suggest that you review the assessment
descriptions below, the study guides for each assessment area and to also take
this practice
test.
Descriptions of the Accuplacer Assessment Tests
Reading Comprehension
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20
questions
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Topics
- social sciences, natural and physical sciences, human relations and
practical affairs, and the arts.
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Types
of questions
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Identify
the main and secondary ideas, apply the information, draw inferences from
the passage
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Find
the relationship between two sentences.
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Reading
Comprehension Study Guide
Sentence Skills Test
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20
questions
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Types
of questions
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Sentence
correction - select correct word or phrases to substitute for underlined
portion
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Construction
shift questions - sentence rewritten according to the criteria shown
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Sentence
Skills Study Guide
Arithmetic Test
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17
questions
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Types
of questions
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Operations
with whole number, fractions, decimals, percents
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Application
and problem solving
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Arithmetic
Study Guide
Elementary Algebra Test
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12
questions
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Types
of questions
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Operations
with integers and rational numbers
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Algebraic
expressions (monomials and polynomials)
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Solving
equations, inequalities and work problems
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Elementary
Algebra Study Guide
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