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Placement/Continuing
Enrollment Information

The University believes that having students enrolled in the appropriate Mathematics and English
courses during their first semesters of college are important to the students’ success. Therefore, the Division of Academic Affairs has established the following placement and continuing enrollment rules related to freshman-level Mathematics and English courses.

Mathematics

Students without prior college credit for a mathematics course will be placed in accordance with the following criteria:

MATH course	THEA Math	ASSET Elementary Algebra	COMPASS Algebra	ACCUPLACER Elementary Algebra	ACT Math	SAT Math
College-level mathematics (see section 3 below)	270 or higher	45 or higher	60 or higher	85 or higher	20 or higher	500 or higher
101 "Fundamentals of College Algebra" (see section 4 below)	230 to 269	38 to 44	39 to 59	63 to 84	17 to 19	460 to 499
100 "Basic Mathematics" (see section 4 below)	229 or lower	37 or lower	38 or lower	62 or lower	16 or lower	459 or lower

The student need exceed only one of the indicated test score minima to achieve the corresponding placement.

Students without prior college credit for a mathematics course and without mathematics scores on the THEA, ASSET, COMPASS, ACCUPLACER, ACT, or SAT must contact the Freshman Mathematics Coordinator for placement at (254) 968-9168.

Students with prior developmental mathematics coursework must contact the Freshman Mathematics Coordinator for placement at (254) 968-9168.

College-level mathematics at Tarleton includes:

MATH 107 "College Algebra"
MATH 108 "Elementary Applied Mathematics"
MATH 110 "Math for Business I"
MATH 118 "Precalculus"

Students must enroll in mathematics during their first semester at Tarleton unless they are eligible for placement into college-level mathematics. Students eligible for placement into college-level mathematics may choose to postpone initial mathematics enrollment until their second regular semester at Tarleton. Following initial mathematics enrollment, students must enroll in mathematics every regular semester thereafter until the freshman mathematics core curriculum requirement has been satisfied.

Placement into the following freshman-level mathematics courses should be advised at the direction of the Freshman Mathematics Coordinator for students who have had a better than average experience in high school and have scored significantly higher on the ACT (24+) or SAT (600+).

MATH 109 “Plane Trigonometry”
MATH 111 “Math for Business II”
MATH 120 “Calculus I”
MATH 131 “Introduction to Probability and Statistics”

Developmental Mathematics Courses at Tarleton (Math 100 and Math 101)

A student placed in a developmental mathematics course must enroll in this course during his/her first semester and continue enrollment in mathematics courses until s/he has successfully completed a college level mathematics course.
A student may not advance to the next mathematics course (Math 100 to MATH 101 or MATH 101 to collegelevel mathematics) until the student has completed the prerequisite course with a grade of "C" or better.
A student that does not achieve a grade of "C" or better in a developmental mathematics course must re-enroll in this course during the student's next semester.

Failure by a student to adhere to these placement and continuing enrollment rules will result in a registration hold being placed on the student's records and s/he will not be able to enroll in courses until this hold is removed. Any student who believes that his/her mathematics placement does not reflect his/her mathematics abilities, should retake an appropriate assessment and have an official copy of the results of this assessment submitted to Undergraduate Admissions prior to the beginning of the Fall semester.

English

Students with credit for ENGL 111 (TCCN: ENGL 1301) must enroll in ENGL 112 (TCCN: ENGL 1302) during his/her first semester and continue enrollment in English courses until s/he has successfully completed the freshman-level English sequence (i.e., ENGL 111 and 112). Note: A student with a score of 620 or higher on Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) verbal test or 28 or higher on ACT English test may request credit for ENGL 111 by contacting Undergraduate Admissions.

Students without prior college credit for ENGL 111 will be placed in accordance with the following criteria:

ENGL course	ACT English	SAT Verbal
111 (see section 3 below)	15 or higher	400 or higher
100 (see section 4 below)	14 or lower	390 or lower

The student need exceed only one of the indicated test score minima to achieve the corresponding placement. Students without prior college credit for ENGL 111 and without English scores on the ACT or SAT will be placed in ENGL 100.

Students must enroll in English during their first semester at Tarleton. Following initial English enrollment, students must enroll in English every regular semester thereafter until s/he has successfully completed the freshman-level English sequence (i.e., ENGL 111 and 112). Students enrolled in ENGL 111 will be given a diagnostic writing assessment during the first day of class. A poor performance on this assessment will mean that the instructor should recommend to the student that s/he switch from ENGL 111 to ENGL 100. The results of the diagnostic writing assessment will be reported to University Testing and entered into BANNER as the student’s Composition Placement Test score.

Developmental English at Tarleton (ENGL 100)

A student placed in ENGL 100 must enroll in this course during his/her first semester, and continue enrollment in English courses until s/he has successfully completed the freshman-level English sequence (i.e., ENGL 111 and ENGL 112). Students enrolled in ENGL 100 will be given diagnostic writing assessments during the first and second days of class. A good performance on either of these assessments will permit a student to switch from ENGL 100 to ENGL 111. The results of the diagnostic writing assessments will be reported to University Testing and entered into BANNER as the student’s Composition Placement Test score.
A student may not advance to the next English course (ENGL 100 to ENGL 111) until the student has completed the ENGL 100 with a grade of “C” or better.
A student who does not achieve a grade of “C” or better in ENGL 100 must re-enroll in this course during the student’s next semester.

Failure by a student to adhere to these placement and continuing enrollment rules will result in a registration hold being placed on the student’s records, and s/he will not be able to enroll in courses until this hold is removed. Any student who believes that his/her English placement does not reflect his/her English abilities, should retake an appropriate assessment and have an official copy of the results of this assessment submitted to Undergraduate Admissions prior to the beginning of the Fall semester.

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