Preparing for Assessment
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Preparing Students for the
Assessment Test
What is Assessment?
How the Assessment test works?
How to help students prepare?
WHAT IS ASSESSMENT?
• The Accuplacer assessment measures a student’s current skill
level in English, Reading and Mathematics.
• The test questions are multiple choice and “adaptive".
• The assessment test does not have a time limit. (Average test
time takes about 1.5 hours but could take up to 3 hours.)
• Since the test is designed as a one time only test, we highly
recommend students study before taking the test.
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Accuplacer Assessment Test
The Accuplacer assessment is separated into 2-sections:
• Math Section
– Arithmetic: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions,
decimals, and percentages. (17 questions)
– Elementary Algebra: algebraic expressions, graphs, factoring, and ratios.
(12 questions)
– College Level Math: covers trigonometry and calculus. (20 questions)
• English Section
– Reading Comprehension: read a passage and answer questions pertaining
to that passage. (20 questions)
– Sentence Skills: rearrange sentences to make them grammatically correct
(20 questions)
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How the Assessment test Works?
For a student to be placed into College
Level English (English 101), the test
system looks at the Sentence Skills and
Reading Comprehension section to
determine the student’s English
placement.
• Possible score range is 20 to 120
• Since the test is adaptive each
question is weighted differently.
• The better the student does the
harder the questions the higher the
overall score.
English Section
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
SS Score
RC Score
1
120
87
2
110
97
3
100
107
Reading Comprehension = RC / Sentence Skills=SS
How the Assessment test Works?
Math Section
Before starting the test the student will answer a background
question asking if they have had algebra before and received a
“C” or better.
• If they answer Yes…
• If they answer No…
There are two ways to place into college level math
1. Algebra score of 103.5 or higher
2. College level math section score of 61.5 to 76.5. 20
Reminder score range is from 20 to 120
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Steps to Preparing Online Video
Steps for Students
– Step One: Be Mentally Prepared
– Step Two: Be Physically Prepared
– Step Three: Take your Time
– Step Four: Relax
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Mt. San Jacinto College
Assessment Center Website
Review materials are available at:
www.msjc.edu/assessment
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Official ACCUPLACER iPhone App
The app provides interactive sample questions on the following
ACCUPLACER tests: Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, College-Level
Math, Reading Comprehension and Sentence Skills.
Mt. San Jacinto College does not endorse or require you
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to purchase any of the sponsor's products.
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Coming Early 2013
Accuplacer official web-based study app features practice
tests in Arithmetic, Elementary Algebra, College-Level Math,
Reading Comprehension and Sentence Skills. You can
access the app at any computer and familiarize yourself with
the basic content areas of ACCUPLACER tests.
Mt. San Jacinto College does not endorse or require you
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to purchase any of the sponsor's products.
Assessment Locations
San Jacinto Campus
Building 1200, Room 1210
1499 N. State St.
San Jacinto, CA 92583
(951) 487-3310
Menifee Valley Campus
Room 1014
28237 La Piedra Rd.
Menifee, CA 92584
(951) 639-5310
Temecula Education Complex
27447 and 27463
Enterprise Circle West
Temecula, CA 92590
(951) 308-1059
San Gorgonio Pass Campus
3144 W. Westward Ave.
Banning, CA 92220
(951) 922-1327
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