PLACEMENT TESTING GUIDELINES
Here at YSU, every student’s application is evaluated for college readiness/remediation free status as outlined by the State of Ohio’s College Readiness Guidelines found on their website and shown below as adapted to YSU’s accepted placement measures.
Topic |
ACT |
SAT |
Accuplacer |
ALEKS |
---|---|---|---|---|
English Score |
18 |
480 Evidenced Based Reading/Writing |
N/A |
N/A |
Reading Score |
21 |
480 Evidenced Based Reading/Writing |
250 Next Gen Reading |
N/A |
Math Score* |
22 |
530 |
|
46 |
*Students in a major requiring a STEM intensive pathway may be subject to college level pre-requisite or supportive coursework (e.g., co-requisite, supplemental instruction) to fulfill major requirements.
The Ohio Department of Higher Education guidelines also specifies that “assessment exam scores will be valid for two years from the completion of that assessment, after which institutions may require students to repeat an assessment to determine the currency of their college readiness.” Therefore, students who have not taken the ACT or SAT test or whose ACT and SAT tests were taken more than two years ago ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE PLACEMENT TESTING BEFORE ATTENDING ORIENTATION AND ENROLLING IN COURSES AT YSU.
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