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Placement Testing Support

Testing Services

The Academic Achievement Center (AAC) offers the following services:

  • Placement Testing - You can take your English and math placement tests in the AAC.
  • Placement Testing Workshops - We offer free support services, helping incoming MassBay students prepare for the English and math placement tests.
  • Make-Up Testing - Current students who missed an exam in a class they're taking can take a make-up exam in the AAC.

Placement Testing

All new students to MassBay seeking a degree or certificate are required by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to take English and math placement testing soon after being accepted to the College. Placement tests determine which English and math classes you will take in your first semester.

A photo ID and an appointment are required to take a test in the AAC.

Placement Testing is the first step in the Student Orientation, Advising and Registration - SOAR process. The following tests are required:

  • Mathematics
  • English for native speakers OR English as a Second Language (ESL)

Math and English tests together take approximately three (3) hours to complete.

Not sure which test to take? Have you taken the tests elsewhere or have transfer credits?
 

See Placement Testing for more information.

Register now to take the Placement Tests →

Make-up Testing

Faculty may arrange for a student who misses an exam for a legitimate reason to take a make-up test in the Academic Achievement Center testing room.

A photo ID and an appointment are required to take a test in the AAC.

Locations

Wellesley Hills: 2nd Floor, Academic Achievement Center
Framingham: Inside the Library, Room 307

For more information, call 781-239-2632 (Wellesley) or 508-270-4213 (Framingham), or email aac@massbay.edu.