Learn More About Placement Testing

Students are given 2 hours to complete the proctored ALEKS Math Placement Assessment. Students usually take between 60-90 minutes.

You can check the ALEKS Math Placement Chart to see what your score qualifies you for. Your scores will be added to your student registration information. When you meet with your advisor at New Wings, they will use this information, along with what you submitted on your Priority Enrollment Form, to place you in a math course.

For most questions about taking the ALEKS Math Placement Assessment, please contact Oregon Tech Admissions at oit@oit.edu or 541-885-1150.

Questions related to accommodations or tech support can be answered by ALEKS. Please see the below sections for contact information.

Contact ALEKS (McGraw-Hill) for questions and arrangements pertaining to accommodated placement assessments.

To learn more about the available support and accommodations offered, please contact accessibility@mheducation.com. Visit the ALEKS support webpage for additional support contact info.

For issues related to the assessment software or Respondus, ALEKS has tech support available:

• ALEKS Technical Support
• ALEKS FAQs
• Contact ALEKS

• Real numbers (including fractions, integers, and percentages)
• Equations and inequalities (including linear equations, linear inequalities, systems of linear equations, and quadratic equations),
• Linear and quadratic functions (including graphs and functions, linear functions, and parabolas), exponents and polynomials (including integer exponents, polynomial arithmetic, factoring, and polynomial equations), rational expressions (including rational equations and rational functions
• Radical expressions (including higher roots and rational exponents)
• Exponentials and logarithms (including function compositions and inverse functions, properties of logarithms, and logarithmic equations)
• Geometry and trigonometry (including perimeter, area, and volume, coordinate geometry, trigonometric functions, and identities and equations).

Please view the ALEKS Topics and Problem Types document for a complete list.

The ALEKS Math Placement Assessment is not multiple choice. It's open response and requires you to work out solutions with a paper and pencil before entering in your answers. Be sure to have scratch paper with you.

There will be an on-screen calculator available for each question that requires one. You may not use your own calculator.

You may only use a pen or pencil, paper, and the resources provided within the ALEKS Math Placement Assessment. You shouldn't receive assistance from friends, family, other websites, textbooks, or any other resource not provided by the assessment software. Using outside resources will lead to improper placement and potentially course failure. It is a violation of the institution’s honor code.

Because the assessment is adaptive, once you submit an answer, you cannot change it. Be sure to carefully check your answer before submitting.

It's likely you'll be asked questions on topics you haven't learned yet. This is by design, as it helps the assessment software understand what math topics you have and haven't learned.

For questions that you're already familiar with, it's important that you do your best to answer correctly.

For questions you're unfamiliar with, feel free to answer "I don't know," which will help the assessment adapt to your knowledge and provide an accurate placement score.

The system will allow you to access your placement assessment for 2 hours. The software will automatically log out after 30 minutes of inactivity. If this happens, you will need to begin the test again.

Since our assessment is proctored and timed, you'll be given a placement result, but it will not be a true reflection of your abilities. Please use the practice materials and take another attempt to ensure accurate math placement.

We will receive your scores from the assessment and provide them to your advisor. This will help them recommend the correct math course to you when you meet with them for your initial fall term registration.

Your placement result (overall score) is a number between 0 and 100. It represents the percentage of topics that you have mastered within ALEKS. Students who score below 30% or place below MATH 100 will be encouraged to enroll in MATH 101. Students will need to speak with an advisor who will then make recommendations and give further instructions.

You can retake the placement assessment up to four additional times to improve your score (the highest score will be used by your advisor for math placement). The software requires that you use the Learning Modules for a specific amount of time before you can make your second and third placement assessment attempts. The Learning Modules and the assessment adapt to your math knowledge as you go.

• Practice test — recommended before your first attempt so you understand how to navigate the tool and utilize the resources available
• 1st Attempt — remember to give yourself extra time to complete the verification steps before Attempt #1 (Note: verification will be required for each attempt)
• 48 Hours
• 2nd Attempt — complete 5 hours of Prep and Learning Modules
• 48 Hours
• 3rd Attempt — complete 5 hours of Prep and Learning Modules
• 48 Hours
• 4th Attempt — work in the Prep and Learning Modules to improve your score
• 48 Hours
• 5th Attempt — work in the Prep and Learning Modules to improve your score

You will have six months of access to your Prep and Learning module. Access to the prep course begins once you select "start" at the top of your screen. Do not select "start" until you're ready to start working.

Access to a Prep and Learning Module is included along with the additional placement assessment attempts.

This is a perfect opportunity to take advantage of the Prep and Learning Modules offered within ALEKS. An individualized study plan will be created based on your performance on the initial placement assessment. ALEKS will identify what you know and what you are ready to learn next so you can brush up on lost knowledge.