Reading Assessment Information
Practice Tests for Reading Assessment
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The Reading Test
Reading Comprehension - 20 questions
Topics - social sciences, natural and physical sciences, human relations and practical affairs, and the arts.
Types of questions:
- Identify the main and secondary ideas, apply the information, draw inferences from the passage.
- Find the relationship between two sentences.
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| Score Placement |
| READING COURSES |
| ACCUPLACER |
ACT |
SAT |
REQUIRED COURSES |
| 25 - 39 |
NA |
NA |
REA 030 Essential Skills for College Reading
see advising for placement.
May retest once |
| 40 - 61 |
NA |
NA |
REA 060 Foundations of Reading
REA 020 Vocabulary Development (optional)
May retest once |
| 62 - 79 |
NA |
NA |
REA 090 College Preparatory Reading
REA 080 Reading, Writing & Speaking (optional)
May retest once |
| 80 - Above |
17- Above |
430- Above |
Any general studies reading course |
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