Moving to College Level When students move from Basic Skills to pre-college or college level programs or classes, we call it "transitioning." Getting a certificate or a degree can be life changing! Watch this video, made for Basic Skills students like you. Click on the image or on the link (which you can copy and save, if you want).
There are two ways that you can begin taking for-credit pre-college courses in English and/or reading, the classes that are a level above the highest Basic Skills levels.
1.) You can qualify by earning a minimum score (59 or above in both Sentence Skills and Reading) on the Accuplacer Test (CPT) in the Testing Center. It costs $25.00. You are allowed to take it twice. You might have taken it when you first came to the college. By opening the link, below, you can see what the questions for this test are like and get a description of the three different academic parts of the test.
2.) You can take the series of tests called "Transition Testing" after having attended an ABE class regularly. Of course, you must also do well in the course. To test, you must have a CASAS reading score of 230 or higher, and must demonstrate that you can write an organized and developed short essay in one class period. Instructors from ABE, ESL, and Pre-College Education will score your written essay together. You can pass with a score of 80% or better on this essay.