- Las Positas College
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- Guided Self Placement
Assessment
Guided Self-Placement
Students are required to log into CLASS-Web to complete the guided self-placement to assist with the development of a student educational plan and determine proper placement into English, mathematics and foreign language courses.
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO COMPLETE GUIDED SELF-PLACEMENT:
- Sign on to CLASS-Web and click on the “Steps to Success” tab
- Under “Select Campus Option”, select Las Positas College
- Select the Guided Self-Placement of your choice and answer all of the questions.
- English Guided Self-Placement
- Math Guided Self-Placement
- Foreign Language Self-Placement
Note: Once you have completed the guided self-placement, please allow 48 hours for your results to be updated on your Class-Web account. If at any time during the assessment you have questions, please contact the Assessment Center.
If your cumulative, unweighted GPA from a U.S. high school is 2.5 or above, we recommend taking English 1A on its own. However, if you have a high school GPA below 2.5 or feel you could benefit from support through the rigor of college English for some other reason, we strongly encourage the following:
Summer 2024: English 1AEX, a 4-unit course that includes additional lab hours to provide more support and practice. English 1AEX is equivalent to English 1A in terms of transferability.
Fall 2024-Spring 2025: NENG 215, a tuition-free non-credit personalized coaching course, or the .5-credit version of the course, ENG 115.
Students may also opt to take a non-credit ESL course in support of their English 1A course. For information on ESL assessment, see the left-hand menu. NESL courses can be reviewed in the college catalog, also accessible from the left-hand menu.
If you received a G.E.D. or a diploma from a high school outside the U.S. and are unsure which courses are best for you, we recommend seeing a counselor.
High school graduates will self-place into the appropriate mathematics class using three criteria: their cumulative, unweighted grade point average, the highest-level mathematics course completed, and the grade received in that course.
- After completing the Guided Self Placement for Math, students may be given a requirement or recommendation to take a support course, based on their highest successfully completed math class in high school and their cumulative high school GPA.
- Requirements and recommendations are based on whether the student is planning to take a BSTEM (Business, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), SLAM (Statistics and Liberal Arts Mathematics) or Calculus course.
- Support course: Students may choose to enroll in Math Jam or Concurrent Support, or both.
- A support course will required for students if either of the following is true:
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is below Algebra 2
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is Algebra 2 and their cumulative high school GPA is under 2.6
- A support course will be highly recommended for students if either of the following is true:
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is Algebra 2 and their cumulative high school GPA is at least 2.6 and below 3.4
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is PreCalculus and their cumulative high school GPA is below 3.0
- A support course will required for students if either of the following is true:
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is below Algebra 2 and their cumulative high school GPA is under 2.6
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is Algebra 2 and their cumulative high school GPA is under 2.3
- A support course will be highly recommended for students if either of the following is true:
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is below Algebra 2 and their cumulative high school GPA is at least 2.6
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is Algebra 2 and their cumulative high school GPA is at least 2.3 and below 3.0
- Their highest successfully completed high school math class is PreCalculus and their cumulative high school GPA is below 3.0
- A support course will be highly recommended for students if their cumulative high school GPA is below 3.0
Students who plan to enroll concurrently while still in high school including Middle College, non-high school graduates, international students, English as a Second Language (ESL) learners, and students who are unsure of proper English and mathematics placement are encouraged to contact the Las Positas College Assessment Center for assistance.