Take a Practice Test

As the test determines very first year course load, it’s very important with the test format, test questions, and test strategies and that you practice taking the test that you familiarize yourself. To do this, we HIGHLY recommend that you:

Overall, the placement test comes with two parts: an English or ESL Part and a Math Part.

If your primary spoken language is apart from English, you might be asked to use the ESL part, which includes ESL Listening, ESL Writing, and ESL Reading Skills sections.

On the other hand, if you should be a native English speaker, you’ll be asked to use the English part, which includes English Writing (Writeplacer) and English Reading Comprehension (Next-Generation Reading) Sections.

Finally, the Math Part is composed of three sections:

• Next-Generation Arithmetic
• Next-Generation Quantitative Reasoning Algebra, and Statistics (QAS)
• Next-Generation Advanced Algebra and Functions (AAF)

Dependent on your performance, you might be asked to take one, two, or all three parts of the Math Test.

All parts and sections of the placement test are computer-based, and provided by the key Campus and Regional Centers. No computer skills are required. You merely make use of the mouse to click the answer.

English and ESL Writing Sections

When you look at the English or ESL writing sections, you will have 60 minutes to write about an interest you are considering the fact that day. Topics are chosen randomly. The writing sample will be scored by ACCUPLACER; if required, it may also be reviewed by people in the English Department that are taught to read and evaluate placement essays. Your essay will be read by a minumum of one faculty member, that will rescore your essay for placement. The combined scores regarding the faculty reader and ACCUPLACER, along with your score on either the Next-Generation Reading or ESL Reading Skills section, would be used to determine your placement in English classes.

For how the essays are evaluated and for sample practice questions along with scored writing samples, please download the group of English Sample Essays or the group of ESL Sample Essays . Read More >

In the 1940s and 50s reports of “flying saucers” became an american phenomena that are cultural. Sightings of strange objects in the sky became the materials that are raw Hollywood to provide visions of potential threats. Posters for films, like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers from 1956 illustrate these fears. Connected to ongoing ideas about life on the Moon, the canals on Mars, and ideas about Martian Civilizations, flying saucers have started to represent the hopes and fears associated with the world that is modern.

Are these alleged visitors from other worlds benevolent and peaceful or would they attack and destroy humanity? The destructive power regarding the bomb that is atomic into question the progressive potential of technology. Anxiety about the possibilities for destruction into the Cold War-era proved ground that is fertile terrestrial anxieties to manifest visions of flying saucers and visitors from other worlds who might be hidden in our midst in plain sight.

Aliens Among us and Fears associated with Other

If UFOs were visiting our society, where were these extraterrestrials? Could they be hidden in our midst? Comic books and television illustrates how the probability of extraterrestrial visitors reflected anxieties of this era.

The 1962 comic There are Martians in our midst, from Amazing Fantasy #15, illustrates the way concern about extraterrestrials could reflect Cold War anxieties. When you look at the comic, a search party gathers around a landed craft that is alien however it will get no indication of alien beings. Radio announcers warn those nearby to stay indoors. The action shifts to a wife and husband as he prepares to leave their property despite a television announcer’s warning to keep indoors. As he waves goodbye he reminds his wife to keep inside. The wife however decides to slip off to the shop and is attacked and dragged off. The husband returns home and finding it empty runs towards the phone in a panic. In a twist, the anxious husband reveals that he and his wife are the Martians.

The fear that there might be alien enemies in fears of soviets to our midst resonates and communists through the McCarthy era. Ultimately, in this story, the humans are those who accost and capture the woman that is alien. Read More >