Math Placement Information for UA Advisors

Math Placement Handouts and General Information for Advisors, for Fall 2021

Math 100 | Math 107 | Placement Chart | Calc Courses/Prerequisites | Math Flow Chart | Arizona Math Transfer Chart | Placement General | Business Card | ALEKS PPL Testing, Retesting | Find Test Scores | S4S | | Online Transfer Eval Form | RDs | Other

Please direct students or student related questions to placement@math.arizona.edu 

• Math 100 Information
• • Math 100 FAQs
  • Note that MCLG test scores are from the Math 100 final for placement and are different from PPL Scores. For Example, MCLG 55 is required for Math 108/112 placement, vs. PPL 40 for Math 108/112 placement.  MCLG 40 is required for Math 106, 107 placement vs. PPL 30 for Math 106, 107 placement.
• Fall 2021 math placement test score chart (No Changes from 2020) - modified SAT I, ACT, and PPL math scores. SAT/ACT is for incoming freshmen only.    
• Information about some courses below the level of Calculus

• Information about Calculus courses
• Math Flow Chart for first and second year courses
• Arizona Math Course Equivalencies - Does not include Grand Canyon University, Arizona Christian University. Submit an evaluation for these institutions. 
• Out of State Transfer Equivalencies - through UA Registrar webpage. Submit an evaluation if the course is not on the Transfer Equivalencies website. 
• Math minor, StatsMinor.
• Contact info business card to give to students you see in person.
• Math Placement Information
  • Current Students
  • Incoming students: go to the Next Steps Center and see information on the pages below
    • Incoming Freshmen website, FAQs Freshmen
    • Incoming transfer, readmit, NDS, UA South, etc. , FAQs Transfer
    • Arizona Online all incoming students
• Testing Information- the placement test is for entry into courses at or below the level of Math 122A/B and 125. Test scores are good for one year.
  • Testing is generally available March 1 through the first week of Fall classes, and then again October 1 through the first week of Spring classes.  
  • All tests are proctored, primarily through Respondus, an online proctoring service. 
  • Respondus Proctoring Quick Guide - Students will need this guide to navigate the testing process.
  • Incoming freshman can qualify through recent SAT I MSS (Math) or ACT MATH scores (2020 or 2021 scores for Fall 2021 freshmen).  
  • All test scores expire after one year.  This generally means that SAT and ACT placement is only good for Fall and Spring of the first year for freshman (Spring only for incoming Spring freshman).
  • About the ALEKS PPL Assessment
    
    • Incoming students access ALEKS PPL information and access Respondus testing through the Next Steps Center.  
      • For incoming Freshmen or incoming international students: To access the test through the Next Steps Center, Enrollment fee must be marked as paid in Next Steps and student must be registered for orientation.  
      • UA Online covers testing fees for their students. 
    • Incoming Transfer, readmits, NDS, etc. must determine if the PPL Assessment is required (Are they done with math requirement? Do they have recent (within 18 months) and appropriate prerequisite? Do they have a placement test score less than one year old?). There is a $26 testing fee.
      • Test is not required for most Transfer students. Access to the Respondus proctoring is through the Next Steps Center.  
      • Students can enroll in Math 100 and SAS 100AX without any test scores. Contact the Math Placement Office for assistance. 
    • Current students test online with Respondus. We will also offer some Math Department Zoom proctored testing in the Summer. Testing Instructions for current students.
•  How do you find Math Placement test scores?
  
  • Advisors-
    • Test scores are on the Transfer Credit Report in UAccess Student.
    • Test scores are posted in Uaccess under Records and Enrollment, Transfer Credit Evaluation, Test Results, scroll to bottom of page (view all)
  • Students- 
    • Incoming students - Check your Score in the Next Steps Center
    • Current Students - Transfer Credit Report
    • TRANSFER CREDIT REPORT: PPL scores may appear as "NO RULE" or "REJECTED".  This does not mean the test score is rejected, only that the score does not award credit.  These scores are still valid for placement for one year (15 months).

• Schedule for Success Contact:
•     Email: scheduleforsuccess@email.arizona.edu
•     Phone: 520-621-4058 

Other Updates, reminders:

 New for FALL 2021:

• PPL Assessment proctored using Respondus Monitor
  • 48 (not 24) hour waiting period between attempts at the PPL Assessment

Reminders:

• Around June 1 of every year, we allow student to enroll in Fall Math 129, 223, or 254 if the student is enrolled in the prerequisite outside UA over summer. Students can add through UAccess. We check prerequisite and contact students who do not seem to meet the requirement starting in early August.  We do not drop student until right before classes begin, but only after attempting to contact them several times. Students must register prior to August 1 and must show proof of completion of the prerequisite prior to the first day of classes. 
• We do not add students to math courses other than honors Math 129 or 223.   Please direct students to add through UAccess.
• Incoming students can find information about math transfer evaluation, review, retesting, find test scores and placement message, and other items through the Math Placement link in their Next Steps Center.
• New Courses Fall 2019, Spring 2020
• • Math 108 - for Architecture and Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences only, same placement as Math 112. Note that  Math 108 works like Math 112 if a student switches out of one of these majors. It will satify the Math 112 requirement, in general, and works like Math 112 as a prerequisite to courses like CHEM 141/151, MCB 181L/R, PHYS 102, Math 113 (C required), Math 116 (C and MIS 111 required), Math 120R, Math 163, Math 263, SBS 200, ISTA 116, and other courses. 
  • Math 119A - for Psychological Sciences, Physio, EEB, Biology, and MCB majors only, same placement as Math 120R. Is not a prerequisite to Math 129.  Math 119A is a prerequisite to courses like CHEM 141/151, MCB 181L/R, PHYS 102,  Math 163, Math 263, SBS 200, ISTA 116, and other courses. 
• Math 111 and 109C are no longer offered. 
• PSY 230 is now a gstrand math course.
• We are using a new test for Fall 2018, ALEKS PPL.  
• All incoming Fall freshmen enrolled in Math 100 will participate in Schedule For Success.
• Please direct students to placement@math.arizona.edu for transfer, test score, placement testing, registration, or other placement related questions. A team of staff help respond to these inquiries.
• Incoming students should be directed to their Next Steps Center. There are special math links there that are specific to the incoming student groups. 
• Spring 2018 (or for fall 2017 incoming students) Math 111+112 is not a pathway to Math 122A/B. Students who place into Math 112 would then take Math 120R before taking Math 122A/B. 
• A grade of C or higher in Math 112 is required for entry into Math 113 or 116 (also requires MIS 111).  
• New course, Math 106, to replace Math 105 for students in the College of Education.
• Math 107 info sheet. 
  • Can replace Math 109C/112 for the following majors: Care, Health, and Society, Communication (as prerequisite to SBS 200), Criminal Justice, Family Studies and Human Development, Information Science and Arts, Political Science, Psychology BA (not BS), Public Management and POlicy, Regional Development, Sociology, or majors that allow Math 105 (except some in the College of Education, consult advisor.) 
  • Is a prerequisite to SBS 200 and ISTA 116 (note that stats courses are NOT prerequisite to lab sciences courses). 
  • Is NOT a prerequisite to Math courses or lab science courses like MCB 181L/R, PHYS 102, CHEM 141/151.
• We have several math requirement designators attached to transfer math courses that do not have a UA equivalent, but can satisfy a requirement. 
  • RD G105 is attached to a course that will satisfy UA Math 105
  • RD M116 is usually attached to a course that transfers as Math 113 (not dual enrollment) and means the course will satisfy UA Math 116.
  • RD M112 is attached to a course that will satisfy Math 112 requirement, but is not a prerequisite to other math or science courses.
  • RD GSTA is attached to a low level statistics course that seems to have similar content to courses like UA Math 163, Psyc 230, SBS 200, but does not have a college algebra (Math 112) or higher level prerequisite. The course can satisfy the Gstrand math requirement (Math 105), or a major statistics requirement (Math 163, Psyc 230, SBS 200), but NOT BOTH. GSTA courses cannot satisfy a Mstrand foundation math (Math 112) requirement.