Placement Test Practice

Accuplacer has a wonderful website to help you prepare for you CCAC placement test. It has been shown that students who practice score better on their tests. Visit the Accuplacer Practice Test site or check out some of the links below.

Unless you are otherwise exempted from one or more placement test, you should be prepared to take the following (each test title is a link to sample questions):

Writing:

Accuplacer Next Generation Writing  or

Accuplacer Write Placer ESL (for ESL students) 

Reading:

Accuplacer Next Generation Reading  or

Accuplacer ESL Reading Skills (for ESL students) 

Math:

Accuplacer Next Generation Arithmetic  

CCAC Elementary Algebra

Accuplacer Next Generation Advanced Algebra

Note: When you take the Math placement test, you will start with Arithmetic or Elementary Algebra, depending on the level of your prior studies. No student will start with Advanced Algebra, but may advance to that test based on other test results.

If you are taking math placement test(s), it is strongly recommended that you also practice at the following: 
Cool Math, Purple Math, Khan Academy.