<p>My friend said at her school she doesn't have to because she did well on her AP exams. We took the same AP exams and got the same scores so now I'm curious if I have to take mine. (If you couldn't guess, we are going to different schools.) Anyway, is it the norm to have everyone take placement exams or is it the norm to not take them if you proved you are above them?</p>
<p>At my school, it was my ACT score that got me out of taking the placement exams. I don’t think my AP scores had anything to do with it. Every college is different though, so try contacting admissions or adivising.</p>
<p>I took a placement exam to get into a dual-enrollment class (precalc and trig) in eleventh grade. Since I had an A in precalc/trig I met the requirements to get into calculus (also got a 4 on the AP Calc AB exam but I didn’t feel confident enough to skip into calc II) the only placement test I had to take was the foreign language one (to get into French 2 after only 1 year of high school French).</p>
<p>I think it depends a lot upon your school. Several friends of mine will be attending our state flagship, which requires placement tests for at least math and foreign languages. (They also seem to place based on AP scores - one of those friends did well on an AP math exam and was offered a seat in a higher level course.) I will be attending a state school within the same system, and while my SAT scores exempted me from taking reading or math placement tests, I did need to take one for French.</p>
<p>At my school, math was required for everybody. Unless you wanted to start a new language, you took the language placement test. There were also tests for chemistry and music theory, but I didn’t take either of those.</p>
<p>However, I’m pretty sure that if a student did better on the AP test than the placement test, they counted the AP score.</p>
<p>I have to take a placement exam for a foreign language (Spanish), hoping to receive credit for it, and I chose to take one also for music theory, in which I hope to test out of Theory I.</p>
<p>I didn’t take one for Span ish since I took AP, so my score correctly placed me. (I’m a Spanish minor). I didn’t need one for math since my major only requires statistics to graduate, and as long as you took algebra 2 in high school you don’t need any pre-reqs for the class.</p>
<p>I had to take one for math, one for German, and one for music theory. My school also offers a chemistry placement test.</p>
<p>As a transfer student, I don’t have to take a math or chemistry placement exam. If I want to take a music theory or language class, though, I need to take a placement test.</p>
<p>I was exempt from all mine</p>
<p>There are certain things that will exempt you from taking them…and if you meet the requirements then they will tell you, if not then you have to take the tests.</p>
<p>My community college made me take placement tests for both math and English. They didn’t even consider high school grades.</p>
<p>My college required everyone to take placement test on the following subjects: chemistry, math, and english. They weren’t extravagantly hard or designed to weed people out of the upper division classes, but, rather, it was to test the general knowledge within each subject. For example, chemistry had a lot of mole conversions; it was actually almost on just conversions. If you took Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, or AP Chemistry, then this shouldn’t be too hard, but review because some stuff were hard because it’s been a while since I looked at those problems. Math was very straight-forward; a lot of pre-calc stuff with trig. English was mostly consisted of sentence structuring, order, grammer, definition, and the usual. Of course, this is at my school! Your school might be totally different.</p>
<p>But i’ve seen some of my friends NOT take placement tests, which depend on the school. One of my friends who is going to Adelphi University said that her AP scores basically covered some of the intro classes, so she can go straight into Cognitive Psych or Experimental Psych if she wanted to. Another friend, however, said that she had to take her placement tests first, regardless of her AP scores, and once the school received them, then they put those scores into account.</p>
<p>I just emailed my school and they said I don’t have to take them 
it seemed kind of 50/50 from the posts.</p>
<p>Math and language are required at my school.</p>
<p>Some people did terribly on the math exam, but they had already taken a math class, yet the system dropped them from their math classes the other day, because their placement test scores weren’t “high enough”, even though they had already passed the first class as a dual enrollment course. smh.</p>
<p>I received a 2 on the AP French exam. Which, I was glad to get, I was expecting a 1. Anyways, if you get a 5 on the exam, the highest language class you get placed into is 209, which is essentially the third semester of the language.</p>
<p>I received a 6 on my placement test (on a scale of 7), and that put me in French 309… a whole two semesters above what a 5 on the AP would have given me… and I only got a 2 on the AP.</p>
<p>So… Placement scores are pretty important at my school. AP Credits, IB Credits, and Dual Enrollment Credits apparently mean less than Placement Tests do at my school when it comes to language and math.</p>
<p>My school, ap or sat or act didn’t have anything to do with placement exams. Had to take Math, Chem, and some people had to write essays and some people had to take Language.</p>