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The ACCUPLACER is a placement test that determines what level of
courses your college will place you in, depending on your score on the
accplacer test. It tests you on sentence skills and your
understanding of sentence structure as well as your ability to rewrite
sentences while maintaining the same meaning as the original sentence.
The accuplacer also tests your reading comprehension level. You will
also be asked to provide a writing sample with WritePlacer which tests
your ability to maintain your focus, properly structure your responses in
a logical and organized way in addition to your ability to develop and
support your ideas.
Arithmetic on the accuplacer exam tests your ability to perform basic
arithmetic operations such as whole numbers and fractions, decimals,
percents, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with
decimals. There will be percent problems decimals, fraction and
percent equivalencies, estimation, rate, measurement, simple geometry and
distribution of quantity into its fractional parts. There is also
elementary algebra.
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