If your ACC Assessment Test score doesn't reflect your true math skills:

We hope that you got the word before you took the ACC Assessment Test that it was important and that you should review your math if it has been a few years since you took it. If not, then before you talk with an advisor, you should do some of that review. To some extent, we will take your word for it that the test didn't reflect your true skills, but only so far as giving you another opportunity to show that you have those skills.

Before you go further, you should review some mathematics and keep a record of what you do. You may find our Prerequisite Review Sheets useful for this. They have problems and answers, but not explanations. If you need explanations, you will need to find someone to help you or get a book or other tutorial materials to work through on your own. We usually broadcast some basic algebra review materials on ACC's Cable Channel at some times before the beginning of the semester.

If, after you have reviewed these materials, you still feel that your ACC Assessment Test score does not accurately reflect your skills, your next step depends on whether you have started a math course or not.

Not yet started
a math (or developmental math) course

Already started
a math (or developmental math) course

You may request permission to retake the ACC Assessment Test. Discuss with an Assessment Counselor

  • Your math background (and for what course you believe that your background has prepared you) AND
  • Some problems you have done from our review sheets or mathematics textbooks at the level of one of the courses you want to bypass.

Some more specific measure of your skills is needed. (The ACC Assessment Test was designed and norms were set for students who are not currently enrolled in a math course.)

If you feel that you have mastered enough material to skip some of the courses in the sequence,

  • Talk with your instructor, and then
  • Talk with one of the full-time mathematics faculty members who are doing math advising about how you can demonstrate your knowledge. In most cases, that will include taking a test focused on the material in the course that you want to skip.

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Last reviewed May 27, 2005 . A letter to advisors is available. Questions, suggestions, comments?