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Challenge Test Dates

Challenge Test Information

Location: Assessment Center, Student Union Building - Rm. 15

Cost: $10.00 to challenge ACT scores -- $20.00 to challenge COMPASS results
(Note: All fees are non-refundable and non-transferable)

Only these photo ID's accepted: a valid driver's license, state ID, or JSCC ID

This series of tests is offered before each semester for students who wish to challenge their ACT or COMPASS placement in math, reading and/or writing. Students may challenge a DSP class one time. If you earned a grade (F, PR, W) in a basic or developmental class, you cannot challenge that class; you must re-take that class to remove the grade.

Past experience shows that students who prepare several hours for the Challenge test have a good chance of testing up a level. Students who do not prepare usually do not move up. Therefore, there is a mandatory one week waiting period between the Compass test and Challenge test.

Changes in DSP Math. Beginning Fall 2008, all students, regardless of math level, register for DSPM0891. DSPM Math students take diagnostic tests the first week of classes and are placed into modules depending on their major and ability. Therefore, students do not need to take the Challenge Math test if they just want to move up a level in developmental math, from Basic Math to Elementary Algebra, for example--that movement will occur in class instead. However, students who wish to challenge completely out of developmental math should take the challenge exam. The Challenge test is an opportunity to move out of DSP math rather than up in DSP math.

In order to test, you must first go to the Admissions Office in the Administration Building and then pay for the test in the Business Office. You have until the last test day prior to the first day of class to Challenge a DSP class and you must honor the one week waiting period between tests. Check with the Savannah, Lexington and Humboldt Centers for their testing dates and times.

Please bring paid receipt from the Business Office and valid photo ID with you to the test.

Other information:

The math test is computerized and untimed. It covers basic math and algebra. Outside calculators are not permitted.
The reading test is computerized and untimed on vocabulary and reading comprehension.
The writing test is a two-part computerized test. The first part is an untimed multiple-choice test on writing and grammar and the second part is a 60-minute typed essay.
ACT study guides are available at area bookstores and libraries. Study links are available at our website http://www.jscc.edu/dsp
Test Prep Sites: www.actstudent.org/testprep/index.html http://www.testprepreview.com/compass_practice.htm
The Registration Center will be open if anyone has any scheduling changes that need to be made after the testing is complete that day.

Students requesting special testing must make a request a week before the scheduled test date and must have accommodations approved through the Disabled Student Services. Students may test only one time for the upcoming semester.