Placement Testing

Remote Testing

Remote Testing Instructions - For Placement Testing at a Location Other Than Towson University

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Towson University offers the ACCUPLACER placement test on campus by appointment. If it is more convenient for you to take the ACCUPLACER test at a location closer to your home, all of these directions must be followed. Please be aware that the placement testing must be fulfilled before your class schedule can be completed. 

1. If you are a high-school senior, you should contact community colleges or learning centers to see if they are willing to administer the Towson University placement test. If the testing center is willing to do so, please obtain the contact information listed in #3 below, schedule a testing day and time, and use the email link (see #2 below) to send the contact information to our office.
   
   
2. If your college does not have a testing center, contact local community colleges or learning centers willing to administer the Towson University placement test, obtain the contact information listed in #3 below, schedule a testing day and time, and use the email link to send the contact information to our office.

   *PLEASE NOTE: Anne Arundel Community College at GBTC, Berkeley College, Montgomery College, and Northern Virginia Community College administer placement testing to their students.  Also, if you want to complete placement testing at Nassau Community College, please call 516-572-7780. Do not contact Sylvan Learning Center (12 Alfred Street), UMUC, Prince George's Community College to complete placement testing.
   

    

   • Placement Testing email (please use your email address with plain text and no graphics; the spam blocker will block your email)
     
     
3. Obtain Test Administrator contact information:  test administrator's name, college or test center's name, email address and phone number. When sending this information to our email address, you must include your name, phone number, TU I.D. number and email address. Please Inform the test administrator at the college or learning center that Towson University's Placement Testing staff  (410-704-2418) will email him or her our ACCUPLACER I.D. and Password within three days for administering the ACCUPLACER test.
   
   
• Test Administrator Instructions
  
  
4. Any charges for taking the ACCUPLACER test at another college or learning center are your responsibility. Until the test administrator receives our ACCUPLACER I.D. and password , you will not be able to take the on-line ACCUPLACER test at their location.
   
   
   • ACCUPLACER Information
   • ACCUPLACER Preparation
     
     
5. Take your confirmation email to the test location. It will include your Towson I.D. number which you will need during the log-in process. The email also verifies the test batteries you will be taking (reading, writing and/or mathematics).
   
   

6. Be sure to identify yourself as a Towson University student or you may be accidentally administered the ACCUPLACER test for the host campus or test location, which may not include the same test batteries for the Towson University campus.

7. Be sure to have a photo I.D. and confirmation email for check-in purposes---you will not be allowed to test if you do not present these two important items.

8. Bring several pencils and/or pens.

9. If you are taking the mathematics placement test, do NOT bring a calculator.  The calculator appears within the test when calculator use is appropriate.

10. Do NOT bring your own scrap paper; it will be provided for you and collected from you at the end of the test.

11. Your test scores and placement results appear on the computer screen at the end of your testing session. Ask the test administrator to print the score report and give you a copy. No one at the local campus or test location will have access to your results once you are logged out of the test. Your results are specific to Towson University. If you did not receive a copy of your score report, please contact Placement Testing immediately at 410-704-2418. You do not need to send us a copy of score results; we have access to the ACCUPLACER score report.

12. Read Retest Policy to see if you qualify for retesting. If you qualify for a re-test, please inform Placement Testing by using our email address.

• Retest Policy

Placement Testing
Academic Advising Center - Lecture Hall
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Phone: 410-704-2418
Fax: 410-704-4047
E-mail: placementtesting@towson.edu  (please use your email address with plain text and no graphics; the spam blocker will block your email)