Mark Zegarelli - ACCUPLACER For Dummies with Online Practice

Next-Generation ACCUPLACER For Dummies with Online Practice Tests

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1. Chapter 4
2. Chapter 10
3. Chapter 11
4. Chapter 13
5. Chapter 14
6. Chapter 15
7. Chapter 17
8. Chapter 18
9. Chapter 19

1. Chapter 10
2. Chapter 17
3. Chapter 18

The American system of community colleges also called junior colleges is one of the greatest achievements in American education.

Now, if youve grown up watching The Big Bang Theory, you may well side with Sheldon, who never lets up on Penny for being a community college dropout. (Just remember, hes pretty hard on MIT, Princeton, and Harvard, too!)

But I stand by what I said: Community college is a great achievement for our nation, and an amazing opportunity for you personally.

As the price of education continues to rise, and shows no sign of dropping anytime soon, community college is still the best deal since the nickel hotdog. The average price tag on a semester of community college is something like $1,500, but many students pay far less or even nothing at all due to government assistance through the FAFSA program. And some even receive money to help them buy books, a computer, and other important college-related stuff.

You can graduate from community college with an associates degree (A.A. or A.S). And virtually every community college can help you accumulate 60 credits toward your 120-credit bachelors degree. Even better, if you maintain a B average at most community colleges, you may find that the doors of your state university just about swing open for you when you graduate.

So, assuming youre with me (and against Sheldon!) that community college is awesome, lets get down to business and talk about the ACCUPLACER.

The ACCUPLACER is more of a speed bump than a detour on your road to a college degree. Here are the most important things to know about the ACCUPLACER:

• The ACCUPLACER is NOT an entrance exam. Your performance on the ACCUPLACER wont keep you out of community college.
• The ACCUPLACER IS a placement exam. Its an opportunity to jump over non-credit reading, writing, and math courses by showing your community college that you already know this stuff.

In fact, technically speaking, you dont have to take the ACCUPLACER at all. But if you dont, then youll be giving up an opportunity to bypass a bunch of classes you might not have to take. You dont really want to miss out on an opportunity, do you?

I wrote this book to help you to do your absolute best on the ACCUPLACER.

If you survived (some prefer the term graduated) high school, theres probably not much in this book that you dont already know or at least you did know it at one time or another. This book offers a quick way to remember what you knew back then and to fill in the stuff that you never quite understood or dont remember now.

Ive done my best to keep this book limited to the absolute essentials for the ACCUPLACER. If you see it in the book, itll probably show up on the test. So, the more time and effort you spend working through the information you find here, the better you will do when you take your ACCUPLACER.

Think of it this way: Each section of the ACCUPLACER that you pass allows you to jump over at least one semester (and possibly two or three) of a no-credit community college course. And a college course has about 45 hours of class time, plus whatever time you spend out of class reading, studying, doing homework, and preparing for tests. However you slice it, that looks to me like 75 to 100 hours, or maybe even more, taking a course that doesnt even earn you any credits toward graduation.