Reading Placement
Students can use this online site to prepare – Reading Sample Questions:
https://accuplacer.collegeboard.org/students/prepare-for-accuplacer/practice
Reading Level
College Ready
- HS GPA: 3.0
- ACT: 20
- KYOTE: 20
- TABE: 12.5+
- Course to Enroll in: No reading course required
- Pathway: Any general education course
Reading Corequisite
- HS GPA: 2.2-2.9
- ACT: 16-19
- KYOTE: 12-19
- TABE: 10.0-12.4
- Course to Enroll in: RDG 100 Concurrently enroll in 100-level humanities, heritage, social/behavioral science, or non-major science general education course. 3 credit hours/counts in GPA
- Pathway: Next—No further reading course required.
Developmental
- HS GPA: < 2.2
- ACT: 11-15
- KYOTE: 6-11
- TABE: 6.0-9.9
- Course to Enroll in: RDG 20 3 credit hours
- Pathway: Next—must enroll in RDG 100 and concurrently enroll in a 100 level humanities, heritage, social/behavioral science, or non-major science general education course.
Adult Education
- HS GPA: 0
- ACT: 0-10
- KYOTE: 0-5
- TABE: 0-5.9
- Course to Enroll in: Skills U
- Pathway: Next—retest KYOTE
RDG 100 MUST BE PAIRED with appropriate Gen Ed in same Bi-Term.
Test scores expire after four years, but final high school GPAs do not expire.
Students who have completed 12 hours of general education courses with a 2.0 GPA are College Ready and can be overridden into general education classes despite their test scores or GPA.
Students may re-test at the end of RDG 20 to attempt College Ready placement.
RDG 100—3 credit hours, transfers as an elective, earns letter grades, calculates in the GPA.
RDG 20—3 credit hours, earns letter grades but does not calculate in the GPA.
ECTC will accept scores from all placement tests listed in the current KCTCS Assessment and Placement Policy including the scores in the Appendix of Older or Uncommon Measures.
Applicable Fall 2022 to present
