Math Placement

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College Board will retire Classic Accuplacer exams starting January 28th, 2019. Nevada State College will offer Next-Generation Accuplacer in its place for Spring 2019.

Placement Scores

 Courses
 Enhanced ACT Math
 Re-Center SAT Math
 Classic Accuplacer
      Elementary Algebra (EA)
College Level Math (CM)
 MATH 95*
19 or below
440 or below
84 or below
N/A
 MATH 96A* + MATH 120E
MATH 96D* + MATH 126E
MATH96S* + STAT 152E
20-21
450 or above
at least 85
N/A
 MATH 120
STAT 152
22
530 or above
at least 85
at least 63
MATH 126
25-27
560 or above
at least 85
at least 70
 MATH 181
28 or above
630 or above
at least 85
at least 101
Courses
Next-Generation Accuplacer
  Quantitative Reasoning, Algebra, and Statistics
Advanced Algebra and Functions
 MATH 95M*
249 or below
N/A
MATH 96A* + MATH 120E
MATH 96S* + STAT 152E
250-262
N/A
 MATH 120
STAT 152
263-275
N/A
 MATH 96D* + MATH 126E
263-275
237-249
MATH 126
263-275
250-262
 MATH 181
263-275
at least 290

 *Note: courses below the 100 level do not count towards a student's Grade Point Average.

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