ACCUPLACER Reading placement test — Information & Free Practice
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ACCUPLACER Reading placement test
- Provider
- College Board
- Format
- Computer-adaptive, four-option multiple choice, discrete and passage-set formats; one Reading placement score (200–300). COMPANION is the same examination's alternate linear format.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 20.
- Time limit
- Untimed
- Passing score
- No national pass/fail or uniform placement cutoff; each institution establishes its own placement rules.
Examination outline
The authority publishes question-count ranges for each content area. The practice percentages below use the midpoint of each range, normalized to 100%; they are not exact percentages published by the authority. Practice question counts may differ slightly because of rounding.
Information and Ideas — Official range: 7–11 questions (Practice allocation: 39.13%)
- Reading closely
- Determining central ideas and themes
- Summarizing
- Understanding relationships
Rhetoric — Official range: 7–11 questions (Practice allocation: 39.13%)
- Analyzing word choice rhetorically
- Analyzing text structure
- Analyzing point of view
- Analyzing purpose
- Analyzing arguments
Synthesis — Official range: 2–2 questions (Practice allocation: 8.7%)
- Analyzing multiple texts
- Vocabulary — Official range: 2–4 questions (Practice allocation: 13.04%)
Examination sources
- What’s on the Tests — educator page
Reading Test and Resources, linked manual and Test Specifications
- Next-Generation ACCUPLACER Test Specifications
pp. 12–15, section 3.1, Tables 2–3 and complete Reading text
- Next-Generation ACCUPLACER Test Specifications
p. 14 Text Complexity, adopting appendix pp. 32–33
- ACCUPLACER Program Manual
printed pp. 8–11 (PDF pp. 12–15), Reading and Reading Content Dimensions
- Understand My Scores
Reading, Writing, and Math Tests, opening paragraph
- Next-Generation ACCUPLACER Test Specifications
p. 13, section 3.1.3 Key Features
- Next-Generation ACCUPLACER Test Specifications
p. 13, section 3.1.3 Key Features, placement result
- What's on the Tests — student page
Opening explanation, time limit
- ACCUPLACER Program Manual
printed p. 6 (PDF p. 10), Pretesting New Test Items
- Find an ACCUPLACER Test Center
Instructions, Contact the school you're enrolling in
- ACCUPLACER Program Manual
printed p. 39 (PDF p. 43), Test Administration Options, item 1
- ACCUPLACER Program Manual
printed p. 38 (PDF p. 42), Test Taker Identification
- ACCUPLACER Program Manual
printed p. 3 (PDF p. 7), Establishing a Placement Program