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Foundational Studies
Accuplacer Information
Accuplacer Scores and What They Mean
The Accuplacer Exam investigates the following elements:
- Determining Relationships
- Making Strategic Eliminations
- Recognizing Switchback Words
- Understanding Word Types
- Finding the Right Opportunities
- When Truth Doesn't Equal Correctness
- Avoiding the Trap of Familiarity
- Making Logic Work for You
- Skimming Techniques to Save Time
- Simplicity is Bliss
- Recognizing Parallelism
- Understanding Grammar Type
- Keys to Using Punctuation
- Awareness of Added Phrases
- Clearing up Word Confusion
- Comparative Methods
- Nonessential Sections
- Maintaining the Flow
- Serial Mistakes
- Commas
- Appositive
- Semicolon
- Sentence Fragment
- Dashes
- Conjunctive Adverbs
- Quotation Marks
- Independent Clause
- Adjective Phrases
- Measurement
- Equal Comparisons
- Conjunctions
- Noun phrases
- Parts of Speech
- Pronoun
- Linking verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Auxiliary verbs
- Capitalization Rules
- Parallelism
- Negation
- Word Usage
- Drawing Conclusions
- Comparison and Contrast
- Determining the Topic
- Contextual Clues
- Predictions
- Emotional Words
- Author’s Thought Process
- Drawing Generalizations
- Cause and Effect Relationships
- Eliminating Choices
- Sequence of Events
- Avoidance of Outside Knowledge
- Conclusions and Hedge Phrases
