Placement Testing

Welcome to Farmingdale State College. Placement testing determines the appropriate starting point for English or Math Courses at FSC. Please view below for more information.

English Placement Information
Math Placement Information

For placement into college level English (EGL 101 or higher), we require 1 of the following:

NYS ELA or English Common Core exam score of 83 or higher
Minimum SAT score of 500 in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing
Minimum SAT essay score of 5 (Writing Subscore)
Minimum ACT score of 21 in Reading & English

Students who do not have scores for the ELA Regents, the SAT Evidence Based Reading and Writing section, or the ACT Reading and English sections will have the option to take a written placement test.

Most first-time students are placed in mathematics courses based upon their performance in high school and on New York State Regents Examinations in Math. A transfer student who has received credit for mathematics courses taken at another college will be placed at the highest Math Placement (MP) level satisfied by either those courses or by the student’s high school Regents/precalculus performance.

Math placement level	NYS Regents Exam Score, High School Course, and/or Previous College Course	Prerequisite satisfied for entry into:
MP 4	Precalculus (high school) grade ≥ 70 or FSC MTH 117 –Precalculus with Applications or FSC MTH 129 – Precalculus	MTH 130: Calculus I with Applications MTH 150: Calculus I
MP 3	NYS Algebra II Regents score of ≥ 70 or NYS Algebra2/Trig Regents score of ≥ 70 or FSC MTH 116 – College Algebra	MTH 117: Precalculus with Applications MTH 129: Precalculus
MP 2	NYS Algebra I Regents score of ≥ 70 or NYS Integrated Algebra Regents Score of ≥ 70 or FSC MTH 015 - Elements of Algebra	MTH 102: Elementary Discrete Mathematical Models MTH 103: Sets, Probability & Logic MTH 107: Introduction to Mathematical Ideas MTH 110: Statistics MTH 116: College Algebra
MP 1	None	MTH 015: Elements of Algebra

The following students are required to take the College’s Math Placement Test to determine their mathematics placement level:

Students who graduated from high school more than five years from the time of application for admission and had not passed any college mathematics course at time of application.
Students from outside New York who have not taken a NYS Math Regents Examination and who have not passed high school pre-calculus or any other credit-bearing college mathematics course.

For general questions about math placement, please contact the Mathematics department at mathematics@farmingdale.edu.

General Placement Testing Information
Students should view the Placement Testing Information page prior to scheduling their test.

Sign-up for a Placement Test

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