Testing Requirements

English

English placement testing is required of all first-year students who received a SAT-CR (formerly verbal) score of less than 500. English placement testing is required of all transfer students who have not successfully completed a transferable college level English composition course. Information on the transferability of English Composition courses from New Jersey community colleges is available at www.njtransfer.org.

Math

Math placement testing is required for all freshmen students unless we have awarded credit through the Advanced Placement Program (AP) for pre-calculus or calculus. Math placement testing is required for all transfer students who have not successfully completed a transferable college level mathematics course with a 640 course prefix (not statistics or computer science). Information on the transferability of mathematics courses from New Jersey community colleges is available at www.njtransfer.org.

Foreign Language

The foreign language exam in Spanish, French or German is required for Arts and Sciences majors who will continue to study the language they studied in high school.

Students are exempt from taking the foreign language placement test if they meet any of the criteria below:

• Completed less than 2 years of high school foreign language.
• Received a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam (AP) in French, German, or Spanish.
• Completed high school ten or more years ago.
• Transferred a foreign language course at the Elementary II level or above.
• Majoring in accounting, finance, management, marketing, nursing, pharmacy, engineering, and bio-med technology.
• Registering for a language different from Spanish, German or French that was studied in high school.

Additional information on foreign language placement testing is available at http://www.camden.rutgers.edu/dept-pages/forlangs/lang_requirement.html