Placement Tests

Many placement tests can be taken online prior to coming to campus. Delight take them before yous annals for classes.

Please read the following advisedly to determine which exams you need to accept.

Required of the following majors: Compages, Biology, Business concern (all majors), Chemistry, Information science, Economics, Environmental Science, Kinesiology, Math, and Physics. All other majors exercise not need to take the Math Placement Examination.

This test is used to place you into the appropriate math form at USF. Previous college-level coursework will also exist used when determining the appropriate course. This is a forty-minute algebra and trigonometry examination, with 32 multiple-option questions. No calculators are permitted.You may only have this test once, all subsequent scores will be not be accepted. Here is a link to practice tests: http://math.usfca.edu/~jcchubb/placement.html

You exercise not have to take this test if you accept submitted a Sat or ACT score to USF.

Undeclared students: If there is even a remote chance that you may cull a Math, Science, Business organization, Kinesiology, Architecture, or Economics major, and you take not taken the Sat or Act, then you should have the math test.

Take the online Math Placement Test

Required of the following majors: Chemistry, Computer Science, Data Scientific discipline, Engineering, Math, and Physics.

Recommended for Economics and Ecology Science majors.

This test is used to place you lot into the appropriate calculus form at USF. This is a 30-minute exam, with 24 multiple-option questions. No calculators are permitted. You may just take this test once, all subsequent scores volition be not be accepted.Here is a link to exercise tests: http://math.usfca.edu/~jcchubb/placement.html

Yous do not have to take this test if you accept completed and passed Calculus I at another college, or if you take submitted an AP Calculus score of 4 or v.

Note: If you are interested in going to medical, dental, pharmacy or veterinary school after attending USF, one semester of Calculus is strongly recommended by many schools.

Take the Online Calculus Readiness Test

Foreign language exam scores are used to place you into USF language courses. You only need to take this test if you plan on studying a strange language at USF that you have previously studied.

A strange language is required of all Arts and Sciences majors equally well as International Business majors.

You practise not take to take this exam if you are beginning a new foreign language.

Online Tests

The following are available to take online:

  • Chinese
  • Filipino
  • French
  • High german
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Spanish
  • Spanish Heritage

For Chinese, Filipino, Japanese: Take the Online Foreign Language Placement Test

For French, German, Italian, Castilian, Spanish Heritage:Take the Online Foreign Linguistic communication Placement Test

Please brand sure to Log In with your organization credential (usfca).

Please take these tests prior to registering for your classes. Plan ahead! The results from the French, German, Italian, Spanish and Spanish Heritage placement take 2 weeks to record on your business relationship.

On-Campus Tests

The post-obit must be taken on-campus.  The format of these tests vary.

Students who have studied Arabic, ASL, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese and Russian before attending USF must schedule private interviews with faculty in these languages, prior to registration for authentic placement. Contact the Foreign Language department at mcl@usfca.edu or (415) 422-2802 to make arrangements.

  • American Sign Language
  • Arabic
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Latin
  • Portuguese
  • Russian

Required of the following majors: Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Scientific discipline

If you lot are majoring in Information science and using General Chemistry I to fulfill your Lab Scientific discipline requirement, then yous should besides take the Chemistry Diagnostic Test.

In one case yous have taken the diagnostic test, the results will appear forth with advice on how to best set up for higher level chemistry. If your score on the diagnostic test is 23 or less (023 in Banner), you lot are strongly advised to take the OWL Quick Prep and so retake the Chemistry Diagnostic Test. Please notation that you lot are only allowed to take the Chemical science Diagnostic Test 2 times.

Owl Quick Prep - please create an account using the link below.

Course Title: USF Owl QuickPrep Course 2022 (self-paced, accessible from April 20 - August 30, 2022)

Educatee Registration URL: https://www.cengage.com/dashboard/#/course-confirmation/E-KY658R67RRR6M/initial-class-confirmation

Student Registration Instructions: How to Register for OWLv2

This does not take a form key or code, yous are required to pay a $xvi fee to access the course. Brand sure you utilize the aforementioned email address for all of your Cengage accounts. If you take any bug, please contact Cengage Learning client support at Cengage.com/support, or 800-354-9706

The USF Chemistry Diagnostic Test is a 45-minute test with 42 multiple-choice questions on material from a typical twelvemonth-long high school chemical science course. You volition need a pencil, scratch paper, calculator and periodic table. Relevant equations are provided. Nosotros suggest you print out a periodic table. Yous may not use a chemistry textbook or online sources of help (y'all will run out of time).

Notes: A score of 4 or 5 on the AP Chemistry exam ordinarily gives y'all credit for Chem 111 and maybe Chem 113 (you may want to take the exam anyway to see where you lot stand. Please speak with a chemistry advisor). Even if you completed a college pre-general chemistry class at USF or another institution y'all must take the diagnostic test to approximate your readiness.

Take the Chemistry Diagnostic Test

If you lot did not place into Full general Chemical science I afterward taking the Chemical science Diagnostic Test, you lot should take the Owl Quick Prep course offered by Cengage to set you for college chemical science. Quick Prep has been proven to improve student performance in first semester chemical science.

After y'all complete the Owl Quick Prep grade, you may retake the Chemistry Diagnostic Test.

Please note: If you are a Biology major, it is essential for you lot to begin Full general Chemistry I in the Fall semester to stay on track to graduate.

Owl Quick Prep - please create an account using the link below.

Course Title: USF Owl QuickPrep Course 2022 (self-paced, attainable from April 20 - Baronial 30, 2022)

Educatee Registration URL: https://world wide web.cengage.com/dashboard/#/course-confirmation/E-KY658R67RRR6M/initial-class-confirmation

Student Registration Instructions: How to Register for OWLv2

This does non have a class central or code, you are required to pay a $16 fee to access the course. Make sure y'all use the same email address for all of your Cengage accounts. If you have whatever issues, delight contact Cengage Learning customer support at Cengage.com/support, or 800-354-9706

To determine which rhetoric and composition course or courses you will be taking, you will need to consummate the Directed Cocky Placement (DSP). This self-assessment should take betwixt 1–ii hours to consummate. Showtime, make sure you accept created a myUSF business relationship. And so:

  • Log in to myUSF
  • On your main dashboard, click the square button that says "Canvas" OR the "Sheet Link" as shown below.

Canvas

OR

  • Click on "Dashboard" in Canvas, and you should meet the Directed Self Placement. If you practice not see the DSP, delight electronic mail rhetoricandlanguage@usfca.edu with your 8 digit educatee ID number.

Dashboard

  • Follow the directions inside the Directed Self Placement

When you consummate the DSP, you lot'll be instructed to choose which Rhetoric form to annals for.

If you choseRHET 195, your core A2 requirement will exist completed upon successful completion of this course.

If yous choseRHET 130, you lot must likewise consummateRHET 131. Please note that if you chose RHET 130, yous will be taking a year long course that begins just in the fall and continues in the spring.  This means that yous volition register for RHET 130 in the fall and RHET 131 in the spring. Successful completion of RHET 130 and 131 volition fulfill your cadre A1 Public Speaking and A2 writing requirements.

If yous choseRHET 110 or110N, y'all must too completeRHET 120. RHET 120 fulfills your Core A2 requirement. Rhetoric 110N has a writing lab component that provides you with additional academic back up, and you lot will earn 6 credits instead of four.

If you choseRHET 106 or106N, you lot must as well completeRHET 110 andRHET 120.  RHET 120 fulfills your Core A2 requirement. Rhetoric 106N has a writing lab component that provides you with additional academic back up, and you volition earn half dozen credits instead of four.

Transfer students:Many transfer students will take core A2 classes such as RHET 250 or 295, or a specialized writing course designed for certain majors. Some transfer students cull to starting time with RHET 110 or 110N.  Your writing requirement is fulfilled upon successful completion of any Core A2 class.

Note: If you are a student with a disability who volition need accommodations for the placement tests, please contact Student Disability Services at (415) 422-2613 one week earlier the scheduled test appointment.

More Questions? For foreign language placement test questions, please telephone call Modernistic & Classical Languages at (415) 422-2802. For math placement exam and chemistry diagnostic test questions, phone call CASA at (415) 422-5050 or electronic mail Tonya Miller at miller@usfca.edu. For Directed Self-Placement, call (415) 422.6243 or electronic mail rhetoricandlanguage@usfca.edu.