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In college, you may be required to take certain subjects or courses, for example, a foreign language. In this case, the classes would begin at a very novice or beginner level. But what if you already had three years of Spanish in high school and are still pretty good? You take a placement test.
A placement test determines your skill or knowledge level in the subject and then places you into the correct class, typically giving you credit for the classes that you got to skip over.
So back to our example, you have to have three foreign language classes: SPAN121, SPAN122, and SPAN123. You take the test and it determines that your skill level is in the 122 level. You skip SPAN121, get credit for it as if you'd taken the class, and start in SPAN122.
Placement tests for other subjects can also place you into appropriate classes for your knowledge level. If you are able to completely bypass a class through a placement test, this is called "testing out".
In lower levels of education (for example, high school), you might take a placement test to determine which level of, say, mathematics you are ready for. A placement test might allow an advanced student to skip right to trig or calculus, while a less advanced student might be placed into a pre-algebra or geometry class.
You do not fail a placement test and the score is only relevant in that it places you into a class that you will be suited for, so just do the best that you can and don't worry too much about the results.
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no the CAHSEE is a high school exit exam the EAP is a placement tests for English at the CSUs
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It is easy if you study hard and easy if you studied what they ask you.
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Advance placement classes give you a head start once you attend College. If you test well enough on the exit exam it counts as college credit.
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The Neumann scholarship test is for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and is affiliated with the High School Placement Test (HSPT). It is not related to the COOP or TACHS tests, which are used for admission to Catholic high schools in other regions.
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box and whisker
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I am pretty sure that will depend on the country, and the specific school.
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It is not hard to get your high school diploma. You just have to finish high school.
