Being a high school student, you have to take the Accuplacer. The Accuplacer examines student’s strengths and weaknesses to determine college readiness and academic performances. Students are tested on their reading comprehension, sentence skills, arithmetic, and elementary algebra. The first time I took the Accuplacer was in ninth grade. The teachers took all ninth graders into a room for testing. We sat in the computer lab for hours taking the Accuplacer. Once we were done, teachers gave us our results at the end. Sadly, I failed my math part from the Accuplacer, which meant I had to retake my math part from the Accuplacer again. I retook the math part of the Accuplacer in tenth grade and once again I failed. I felt devastated to know I
