First-Year Placement Tests

If you do not have an SAT or ACT score on file, you
will register for ENG 101.

SAT Verbal Score

• ENG 101: SAT Verbal – 620 or lower
  (Unless you have transfer credit for ENG 100 or 101)
• ENG 103: SAT Verbal – 630 or higher
  (Unless you have transfer credit for ENG 100 or 101)

ACT English Score

• ENG 101: ACT English – 26 or lower
  (Unless you have transfer credit for ENG 100 or 101)
• ENG 103: ACT English – 27 or higher
  (Unless you have transfer credit for ENG 100 or 101)

You have two options to complete the World Language requirement

Continue the Same Language as High School

• Complete the Language Placement Tool
• Take the course that matches your placement
• Complete the 201 level (or higher)
  in that language

Starting a New Language at UNCW

• Don’t complete the Language Placement Tool
• Register for a 101 level of the new language
• Complete the 102 level of the new language before
  graduation

No Prerequisite or Placement Test Required

• MAT 101 (Quantitative Reasoning)
• MAT 141 and/or MAT 142 (for Education Majors)
• MAT 150 (Basic Precalculus)
• MAT 160 (Precalculus: Algebra and Trigonometry)
• STT 210 (Statistics in the Health Sciences)
• STT 215 (Statistics)

ACT Math score = 22 or higher,
Math Placement Test score of 3 or higher,
or passing grade in MAT 105 or equivalent

• MAT 111 (College Algebra)

ACT Math score = 27 or higher,
AP Calculus AB or BC Exam 2 or higher,
Math Placement Test score of 4 or higher,
or passing grade in MAT 150 or equivalent

• MAT 151 (Basic Calculus)
• MAT 112 (Trigonometry)

ACT Math score = 29 or higher,
AP Calculus AB or BC Exam 2 or higher,
Math Placement Test score of 5,
or passing grade in MAT 160 or equivalent

• MAT 161 (Calculus with Analytical Geometry)

Determine if you need to take the math placement test