Computerized Placement Test Skills Refresh Resources

The Academic Success Center's (ASC) Computerized Placement Test (CPT) Skills Refresh Resources are provided to help students review the concepts they should have previously learned in arithmetic, reading comprehension and sentence skills.

Students should take time to study these concepts and skill areas before CPT re-testing.

What are the ASC's CPT Skills Refresh Resources?

The resources below are not intended to teach students or train them to get the best scores on the CPT so they can enroll in college-level courses and bypass all college preparatory courses. Rather, they are intended to provide an accurate assessment of students' abilities as they start college.

No guarantees are implied or assumed by the ASC by providing these resource links. Additionally, the ASC will not teach or tutor students in skill areas that they have not already learned through their previous educational experiences.

The resources below provide supplemental review of the skills introduced in the subtest packets. Before using them, students must purchase the subtest packets from any Seminole State bookstore.

Arithmetic Skills Resources

• Number Properties
• Order of Operations
• Scientific Notation
• Signed Numbers
• Simplifying Radicals
• Solving Applications Using Systems
• Summary of Laws of Exponents
• Translating English Phrases to Algebraic Form

Arithmetic Skills Resources Online

• PurpleMath.com (online modules)
• Math TV (free videos on topics ranging from basic math to calculus)

Reading Comprehension Skills Resources

• Cuesta College: Subjects/Topics and Main Ideas
• Cuesta College: Supporting Ideas - Methods and Relationships
• Cuesta College: "Reading" Inferences
• H&H Publishing: Authorial Intent - Purpose and Tone

Reading Comprehension Skills Resources Online

• Cuesta College: Reading Comprehension
• H&H Publishing: Reading Skills
• Manatee Community College: Reading and Vocabulary Resources
• Pearson-Longman Reading Lab Manual Online

Sentence Skills Resources

• Making Subjects, Verbs and Pronouns Agree
• Subject-Verb Agreement: Present Tense Practice
• Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
• Pronoun Case
• Pronoun Practice: Agreement and Case
• Comma and Semicolon Overview
• Coordination: Compound Sentence Patterns
• Coordination: Practices in Usage
• Subordination: Complex Sentence Patterns
• Subordination: Punctuation Drill
• Subordination: Practice Test
• Punctuation Pattern Sheet for Joining Clauses
• Coordination, Subordination and Semicolon Review
• More Coordination and Subordination Practice
• Methods of Correcting Run-ons and Comma Splices with Practice
• Fragment Practice I
• Fragment Practice II
• Parallelism with Practice

Sentence Skills Resources Online

• Capital Community College: Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Grammar Bytes!: Free Grammar Lessons and Exercises by Skill Area

Other CPT Resources

• Seminole State's Assessment and Testing CPT Practice and Information Pages
• Accuplacer Test Preview
• Accuplacer Sample Questions for Students

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