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Student Connection:

Admissions

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Grades

Graduation

Orientation

Paying Tuition

Placement Testing

Registration

Residency

Steps to Take Credit Classes

Student ID

Student Records

Transcripts

Tuition Rates & Fees

Voter Registration

COMPASS and COMPASS ESL Preparation

You may be able to improve your COMPASS or COMPASS ESL scores by doing some simple preparation before taking the placement tests.

COMPASS Preparation

The following links will take you to information and practice questions that will help you prepare to take COMPASS:

Sample COMPASS questions for mathematics, reading, and writing (not a WCC website)
MDEV Quick Study Sheet (PDF). You must also take the MDEV test if your COMPASS math score indicates you need to take college-readiness classes.
Writing Skills Tutorials
- Diagnostic Grammar Test (PDF)
- Verb Tense (PDF)
- Modifier Exercise (PDF)
- An Introduction to Commas (PDF)
- Colons and Semicolons as Linking Punctuation (PDF)
- Capitalization: Simplified Rules (PDF)
- Usage and Easily Confused Words (PDF)
- Homonyms: To, Too, Two (PDF)
- Wear, Were, We're, Where (PDF)
- Affect/Effect (PDF)
- The Apostrophe: Possessives (PDF)
- Subject-Verb Agreement (PDF)

COMPASS ESL Preparation

The following links will take you to information and practice questions that will help you prepare to take COMPASS ESL:

ESL Sample Questions for Reading, Grammar, and Listening tests (not a WCC website)
COMPASS ESL Preparation Hints (PDF)

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