General Advice About Assessments

Preparing for your Assessment:

• There is no need to prepare for the Critical Thinking Test, the Writing Placement Test, or the Michigan Placement Test (for ESL).

What to bring to your assessment session:

• A picture ID
• Your Augsburg ID number, if you know it
• A calculator, if you wish, if you plan to take the Math Placement Test (graphing calculators are acceptable)

Guidelines for the assessment session:

• Please arrive on time to prevent distractions for others who are also testing and to ensure that you will be allowed to test.
• Typically, the math, the writing, and critical thinking assessments each take approximately an hour. The language assessments take approximately twenty minutes.

Re-test policy:

• The Writing Placement Test and the Critical Thinking Test can only be taken once.
• The Math Placement Test can be re-taken only once, during the first term of enrollment.
• The Modern Language Placement Test can be retaken; however, there will be a $25 fee charged to your student account should you decide to retake the test.