Stupid College Placement Tests !

[Jumpman6]

Geez we all barely made it out of high school and peopel said high school was one the hardest things in life to overcome !! and now college. I'm go to this private college Capitol college...They make everyone take a placement exAM...What will I ever do ? anyone have any ideas as whaT i CAN do ?? I need to make it off well enough to be able to be placed in Calculus. So I can study my major and not take their special courses :Q hint dummy courses..this delays u..Please help msg me e-mail what willI do? ??

 

[AaronP]

wow, High School and Hard are 2 words that you rarely see in the same sentance. I thought High School was very easy. College ain't bad either, once you get in the groove after the first semester or two, college becomes a piece of cake too.

Don't sweat it, and if you have to take an extra math class, no big deal, I didn't, but a lot of people I know did, and it didn't set them back really. It's just what ya gotta do.

 

[MrBond]

I went to high school with a fairly smart girl who decided to throw her life away and whore around instead of going to Capitol. But thats neither here nor there.

Placement tests aren't a big deal. Study over areas you're unsure of before you take the test, and don't sweat it if you don't place into calculus. (thats easy for me to say cause I went to a public college and classes are a little cheaper). If you place into pre-calc for example, you may have it fairly easy at first, and the A in the class will help. It'll also get you prepared for what calculus will be like at Capitol (since they try to teach you what you'll need to know for the next class).

I got lucky, because I was in the honors program, any placement test I took had no effect on my course choices. I got stuck right in with all the other honors engineering students.

College is a fun time, don't stress about it. Go, learn, make friends, and have fun. You won't regret it.

 

[ucdnam]

If you're really fearful of not getting into calculus, you can go onto campus and find out if there are any prep documents for it. At my university, we have placement tests for chem and calculus. First time, most thought they knew it all, coming from high school. Most didn't pass, so you go home, study, and you'll get into the math class you want.

We have practice exams, cheat sheets, study guides, all of that for these placement exams sold on campus.

 

[Belegost]

Really, just go to the test, do your best and take the assignments given. I've been in classes with classmates who found some loophole around pre-reqs and got to the class to save time; most of them failed, or barely passed. The tests are there for you, to make sure you can keep up with the class. If you fail a class because you were unprepared for it, did that help you? If you barely pass, but really didn't understand everything, are you going to know that stuff in the classes that prepares you for?

 

[rbV5]

Edit: Thank You Mods, sorry about the rant.

 

[randomlinh]

my chemistry "placement" test was a joke. 20 multiple choice that most ppl should know. "What is water: CO2, H2, O2, H2O"

Anyway, how strong were you in math at school, and how far did you go? My placement test was for calculus, even tho my SAT's technically placed me in there, I had to take it anyway for engineering. It only when through some easy trig as far as I remember... then again i was half asleep (don't go to orientation after coming straight from the beach ). This was at UMD anyway...

 

[MrChicken]

I went to Capitol 18 years ago. No placement tests back then. They took your money and schooled you like a dog. You had better have been smart and hard working or you got left behind. It was a great experience for me, the high school slacker, as I finally got challenged hard and responded well.

I went for a tech class, they actually didnt become accredited as college until my second semester, and my Profs were simply OUTSTANDING!.

The test might be a blessing, many of the people I started with dropped out because the course way too hard for them.