Reading Placement Assessment
Reading comprehension is essential for college success. This assessment measures your reading comprehension skills and helps us determine whether you would benefit from additional coursework to prepare for college-level reading.
Practice Helps You Succeed
Before you test, be sure to review. Proper placement is important to your success in college. Your score will determine whether you will be required to take remedial reading courses.
Reviewing before you take the test is the best way to prepare. Your score will determine if you will be required to take remedial reading courses.
Reading courses, while critical and required for some students, do not count toward your degree. A score of 250 or higher will allow you to jump right into courses in your plan of study.
Practice Tests
Click the links below to take practice tests. These provide review material that may be on your assessment.
- Accuplacer Reading Comprehension Practice Questions
- Accuplacer Practice Test
- ACCUPLACER Reading Comprehension Practice Test
Taking the Assessment
Assessment Format
For the Reading Placement Assessment, you will be asked to:
- Read passages of varying lengths.
- Answer 20 multiple-choice questions
Timing, Costs, and Assessment Rules
There is no charge to take the reading placement assessment. You may retest one time in two years.
Most students take the Reading and the Writing Placement Assessments at the same time.
Allow two hours or more to take the two assessments. Neither are timed and students generally spend 45 - 60 minutes on each assessment.
Assessment Scores
If you score 249 or below, you will be placed into a remedial reading course. If you score 250 or above, you will not be required to take a reading course.
| Score | Course |
| 200-228 | Intermediate Reading (ENGL 0140) |
| 229-249 | Advanced Reading (ENGL 0145) |
| 250-300 | No reading course required |
Retrieving Your Scores
Accuplacer Score Reports can be accessed by going to Accuplacer.org. Open the Student Portal and enter your information. Accuplacer will email your results to the email address you entered when you took the assessment.
If you need your report and cannot access it through the portal, please email us from your Columbus State student email account to request a copy.