Foundational Studies

Accuplacer Information

Accuplacer Test Manual

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