Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The SAT is a household name and AP classes are ubiquitous. But the Accuplacer, a lesser-known suite of tests from the College ...

Corrected: The original version of this story misspelled the name of Gretchen Schmidt, a program director in Boston for Jobs For the Future. College-placement tests can make or break a student’s ...

After researching how students are placed in remediation classes, I began to wonder how someone who already has a college degree would do on such a test. So I decided to take the Accuplacer. (Take ...

Test your math know-how with sample questions from the new Accuplacer. Related Article I graduated from college nearly 25 years ago. Wondering if I’d be considered college-ready now, I arranged at a ...