Mathematics Placement Exam FAQs

This page contains a list of questions that the Department has been asked over the last twenty years. If you do not find an answer to your question, please contact the Mathematics Department.

Any student who wants to take MATH 20 or MATH 30 at GGU, and who does not have the course prerequisite. Prerequisites: For MATH 20 , C- or better in MATH 10; for MATH 30, C- or better in MATH 20 .

Yes. Only you can take care of your algebra requirement. As a rule, anyone without previous college-level algebra courses must be tested to establish his/her algebra level prior to enrolling in a GGU algebra course. For example, those who wish to take MATH 30 must have finished an intermediate algebra level MATH 20 with a grade of C- or better. Check our placement test schedule for each semester.

No, you can take it only once a semester. But if you feel your score would be improved by some self-review, you may study on your own and retake the test in the next semester.

The Math Department has prepared a practice test for the placement subjects. Go to PRACTICE TEST FOR MATH PLACEMENT TEST to download it. If you are familiar with most of the material in the practice test, you will probably place into MATH 20 or MATH 30 . If you have not previously studied the material, or have forgotten all of it, then you should probably plan on being placed into MATH 10.