ACT, SAT1, & Florida College Entry-Level Placement Tests:

As a part of the admissions process, students must provide placement scores that are less than two years old. The placement tests accepted by the College are those designated by the Florida State Board of Education. These are the ACT, SAT1, and the Florida College Entry-Level Placement Test, which are described below. Placement scores will be used to help advise students on proper course placement. Placement test scores are not used to indicate pass/fail for admissions to the College. Scores that are at or above the College cut-scores will allow students to take college-level courses and scores below the College cut-scores will require college preparatory courses. This advising process helps students begin their college experience at the appropriate level of instruction to insure their success in reading, writing, and mathematics.

ACT: 

· The American College Testing (ACT) program provides an entrance examination on a national test schedule. SFCC is a testing site for the ACT. Score reports from the ACT may be used for advising and placement purposes. The ACT is approximately a three-hour test that measures skills in English, mathematics, reading and science reasoning. For further information, sample questions, or registration, you may visit ACT's website at www.act.org.

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SAT1 

· The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT1) is an entrance examination that is provided on a national test schedule. Locally, Sebring High School, Sebring, FL is a test site. Score reports from the SAT1 may be used for advising and placement purposes. The SAT I is approximately a three-hour test that measures verbal and mathematical reasoning abilities. For further information, sample questions, or registration, you may visit The College Board website at www.collegeboard.org.

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Florida College Entry-Level Placement Test

        Florida College Entry-Level Placement, commonly called the CPT Test, is a Florida version of College Board's Accuplacer Common Placement Test (on line at www.accuplacer.com), used by all State of Florida community colleges as their common placement test. There is a written and a computerized format of the test available. The written format takes about three hours to complete. The untimed computerized format takes approximately two hours and no computer experience is necessary to take the test. The test is also available in large print, Braille, and audiocassette. Sample questions are available and helpful resources for review could be any GED or high school equivalency study guides, basic algebra books, and books on grammar and sentence skills. The test covers the following three areas:

Reading Comprehension measures your ability to understand what you read and may ask questions about:

            Identifying the relationship between sentences.

            Distinguishing between main and secondary ideas.

            Making inferences from content.

Sentence Skills measures your ability to recognize clear and complete sentences and may ask questions about:

             Choosing the most appropriate word or phrase.

             Recognizing incomplete sentences.

             Recognizing nouns, verbs, adjectives.

             Recognizing sentence logic.

Elementary Algebra measures your ability to solve basic algebra problems and may ask questions about:

             Simplifying algebraic fractions and roots.

             Factoring polynomials.

             Solving linear and quadratic equations.

             Solving inequalities and word problems.

Students with specific disabilities may request test accommodations such as extended time, large print, Braille, and audiocassettes. These students should first contact the College's Disabilities Specialist prior to testing to determine the appropriate accommodations that are needed.