Test Details

The Accuplacer Assessment test is a Computer Placement Test. KNOWLEDGE OF COMPUTERS IS NOT NECESSARY TO TAKE THIS TEST. The Exam is not timed, you can expect to take about 1 1/2 to 3 hours to complete all the tests. Please contact the Student Services Center at (719) 384-6831 for the test times to make an appointment.

The tests are as follows:

The Reading Comprehension. Test includes questions which involve identifying the main and secondary ideas in a reading passage, applying the information, and drawing inferences from a passage. A second type of question involves answering questions about the relationship between two sentences. Categories covered include social sciences, natural sciences, prose fiction and practical affairs, and the arts.

The Sentence Skills Test includes question of two different types. The first type consists of sentence correction questions in which the student selects an appropriate word or phrase to substitute for an underlined portion of a sentence. The second type, construction shift questions, requires that a sentence be rewritten according to the criteria shown while maintaining essentially the same meanings as the original question.

The Math Skills Test has 4 sections which include the following:

• Numerical Skills/Pre-algebra test includes questions of 3 different types. The first involves Averages: Means, Medians, and Modes. The second type involves basic operations with decimals and fractions and the third type involves percentages. If your score is high enough on the Numerical Skills / Pre-algebra test, you will also take the Algebra test.
  
  
• Algebra test includes questions of 5 different types. The first involves Linear equations in one variable, the second type is basic operation and polynomials. Substituting values into Algebraic expressions is the third type, the fourth type involves rational expressions and the final type deals with linear equations. If you score high enough on the Algebra test you will also take the College Algebra test.
  
  
• College Algebra includes 2 differences question types, complex numbers and functions. If you score high enough on the College Algebra test you will also take the Trigonometry test.
  
  
• Trigonometry includes 2 types of questions: functions and Identities and right-triangle trigonometry.