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Does the class you want to take have a pre-requisite?
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Did you
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Graduate from High School within the last 5 years
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Complete College-Level English or Math Courses
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Take the placement test before
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None of the above
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Did you
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Have a GPA of 2.7 or higher the last semester of your senior year
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Take the SATs
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Take the ACTs
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None of the above
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Send us your high school transcript to admissions@ccac.edu to be exempt from the Reading and Writing Placement Test.
Did you get a
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510+ on the Verbal Test
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550+ on Math Test
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None of the above
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Send us your high school transcript to admissions@ccac.edu to be exempt from the reading placement test.
Send us your high school transcript to admissions@ccac.edu to be exempt from developmental math courses but must complete the placement test if intending to take a course above the Intermediate Algebra MAT-108 level.
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
Did you get a
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21+ on the Verbal Test
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21+ on the Math Test
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None of the above
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Send us your high school transcript to admissions@ccac.edu to be exempt from the reading placement test.
Send us your high school transcript to admissions@ccac.edu to be exempt from developmental math courses but must complete the placement test if intending to take a course above the Intermediate Algebra MAT-108 level.
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
Did you
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Take college-level English
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Take college-level Math
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Get a college degree
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None of the above
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Send us your official college transcript to transcripts@ccac.edu to be exempt.
Did you get a C or better in college-level English
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Yes
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No
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Send us your official college transcript to transcripts@ccac.edu to be exempt.
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
Did you get a C or better in college-level Math
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Yes
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No
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Send us your official college transcript to transcripts@ccac.edu to be exempt.
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
Has it been over 4 years since you took the test?
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Yes
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No
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You can retake the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
You cannot retake the placement test.
You will need to take the placement test. Taking the Placement Test Online - Guide
You do not need to take the placement test.
List of Exemptions:
- Students who submit a high school transcript with an unweighted cumulative (overall) GPA of 2.7or better (or 80% for schools with a percentile grading system) are exempt from taking the English and Reading placement tests and will be placed in ENG 101, English Composition I.
- Transcript must include the grades from the first half of the senior year in high school or show high school graduation within 5 years of the date the transcript is submitted to be eligible.
- International, home school and GED documentation are not accepted under this exemption. (Effective Spring 2019)
- For high schools that do not have an unweighted GPA, the weighted GPA will be used.
- You already have a college degree.
- You have already taken college-level English and/or mathematics with a grade of "C" or better.
- You plan to register for a class or classes that have no specified skill requirements.
- Students with SAT Verbal test score of 510+ or ACT Verbal test scores of 21+ will be exempt from the reading placement testing, but still must take the English writing test (there is no SAT/ACT exemption for English.)
- Students with SAT Math test score of 550+ or ACT Math test score of 21+ will be exempt from developmental math courses, but must complete the placement test if intending to take a course above the Intermediate Algebra MAT-108 level.
- Students who have taken the TOEFL or IELTS exams may submit these scores for exemption or placement into English as an Academic Language (EAL) courses.
- A student may re-test for placement out of a course in which he/she was enrolled after four years.
- Once a student has re-tested after four years and scores into the same course(s) for which he/she was enrolled, there is no further alternative, regardless of the results.