If you have difficulty accessing or taking the Entrance Tests:

• Do NOT(!) contact the Blackboard technicians at the UMKC Information Services Call Center.
• Do NOT contact your academic advisor about technical matters.

The Technicians and Advisors will just refer you to our Valuable Blackboard Tips page.
So, (please) READ IT before you start!

Entrance Tests Coordinator: Dr. Richard Delaware, delawarer@umkc.edu

To register for any of the courses

• Math 110 (College Algebra),
• Math 120 (Precalculus),
• Math 206 (Brief Calculus & Matrix Algebra), or
• Math 210 (Calculus I),

you must

• pass the associated online Mathematics Entrance Test.

The purpose of these online Mathematics Entrance Tests is to assess your present mathematical skills. We all (the university, our department, and your advisors) want you to be successful in these courses, and not waste time (and money!) discovering in the first few weeks of class that you are unprepared. Students who drop out, or even fail, these basic courses find it difficult to move on in their programs of study, and can lose heart.

So, you should take these online Tests honestly and without any help. Since the online Tests are randomly generated each time you attempt them, you can repeat them as many times as necessary until you pass. If you do so, you will develop a reasonable sense of your own present readiness for these courses. There is no advantage to cheating, because only you will suffer if you enroll in a course for which you are not ready. We encourage you to use this unique diagnostic opportunity to place yourself onto the best path forward!

(Click on Topics for a list of what material each Test covers.)

Mathematics Entrance Test for:	Topics	Questions	Passing Score
Math 110 (College Algebra)	Elementary & Intermediate Algebra	20	15/20
Math 120 (Precalculus)	Elementary & Intermediate Algebra	20	15/20
Math 206 (Brief Calculus & Matrix Algebra)	College Algebra	25	15/25
Math 210 (Calculus I)	College Algebra & Trigonometry	25	15/25

• Have scratch paper and a pencil or pen handy while working on an Entrance Test. Pick a time when you won't be interrupted or distracted.

• Each Entrance Test has a 35 minute time limit. Blackboard provides a timing bar at the lower left of your screen to show the time elapsed since you began the test. If you exceed the time limit, no score is recorded.
  [If needed, see note for Students with Disabilities.]

• You may take any Entrance Test as many times as you like, because
  a new, equivalent Test is randomly generated each time you start a new test.

• Each Test consists of mostly "multiple choice" questions. Occasionally there may be a "fill in the blank", "matching", or "multiple answer" question.

• Each question is worth 1 point. Your Entrance Test score is the number of questions you answer correctly out of the total number of questions on the Test. Wrong answers are not penalized.

• Continue to re-take the Test until your score is 15 or more. Your HIGHEST score is the one displayed on Blackboard's "My Grades" page. [One exception: If you see the symbol "!" appear as your grade, read the explanation on either our Valuable Blackboard Tips page, or our Mathematics Entrance Tests FAQ page.]

• See Directions to the online Mathematics Entrance Tests in Blackboard for:
  
  • How to access the Entrance Tests, and
  • How to "SELF-ENROLL for the Tests in Blackboard".

• All your Entrance Test scores (for all your attempts) are immediately available online to both you and any UMKC Academic Advisor.

• Passing an Entrance Test does not guarantee you will pass the course.

• Passing an Entrance Test does not earn you credit for any prerequisite courses.