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Placement Tests and Exemptions

Please note that assessment may be required for first-semester students. Per Florida state rule 6A-10.0315, a degree-seeking student who entered 9th grade in a Florida public school in the 2003-2004 school year, or any year thereafter, and earned a Florida standard high school diploma or a student who is serving as an active duty member of any branch of the U.S. Armed Services shall not be required to take the common placement test and is not required to enroll in developmental education. All students who entered 9th grade in a Florida public school prior to the 2003-2004 school year or did not attend a Florida public high school must take the Florida Post-Secondary Education Test (P.E.R.T.) or submit SAT, ACT, or Accuplacer scores that exempt them from the college developmental program or they must submit college transcripts that show the completion of Freshman English I or Intermediate Algebra. The above placement test rule applies to students enrolling in CTE, Career and Technical Education, programs as well. 

Placement instruments are not used for admission to the college; although, they may be used as a guide for admission to certain limited access programs. All placement tests and tests used for exemption to the placement tests are valid for two years.

Exemptions and Alternative Methods to the Placement Tests

You are not required to take the related portions of a placement test if the following conditions are met:

  • SAT scores of 24 or above on Reading and 25 or above on Writing and Language, or 24 or above on Math for placement into Intermediate Algebra (MAT1033), or 26.5 or above on Math for placement into College Algebra (MAC 1105);
  • ACT scores of 19 or above on the Reading or 17 or above on English or 19 or above on Math for placement into Intermediate Algebra (MAT1033), or 21 or above on Math for placement into College Algebra (MAC1105);
  • Accuplacer (Next Generation) scores of 245 or above on both the reading and language or for math a 242 or above on Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra and Statistics;
  • Proof of successful completion of the equivalent of ENC 1101 (Introduction to Composition) or MAT1033 (Intermediate Algebra) at another college.
  • 2014 GED Test Reasoning through Language Arts and Mathematics Reasoning minimum score of 145 (TABE and AE-CASAS test only).
  • PSAT/NMSQT scores of 24 or above on Reading and 25 or above on Writing and Language, or 24 or above on Math.
  • PACT scores of 22 or above on the Reading or 18 or above on English or 22 or above on Math.
  • GED scores of 165 or above in Reasoning through Language Arts and Mathematics Reasoning.
  • TASC scores of 580 or above in Language Arts Reading and 560 or above (and 6 on Essay) in Language Arts Writing or 560 or above in Mathematics.
  • HiSET scores of 15 or above in Language Arts Reading and 15 or above in Language Arts Writing or 15 or above in Mathematics.
  • EOC scores of 4 in Algebra 1 or Geometry.
  • ALEKS PPL scores of 30 in Mathematics.
  • Unweighted high school GPA of a 3.0 or higher, and grades of B or higher in AICE, AP or IB English or mathematics courses apart of section 6A-10.0315.
  • Unweighted high school GPA of a 3.0 or higher, and grades of B or higher in certain high school coursework from Florida Public High Schools apart of section 6A-10.0315.