DEGREE AND COLLEGE CREDIT-SEEKING STUDENTS

    
Who is required to take the CPT?

• All degree-seeking first-time-in-college students and all college credit certificate-seeking students in Allied Health programs. Such students may not register for any credit course at MDC until they have a set of complete scores on file. This includes students who hold only a career certificate.
• All college credit certificate-seeking students taking any course outside of their program.
• All students who register for any English, or mathematics course (excluding MTB 1103), or any course that requires college-level Reading and/or Writing placement.
• All students, except college credit certificate-seeking, who register beyond 12 cumulative credits. 
  Note: A College Credit Certificate student who changes status to degree-seeking cannot claim placement exception as a first-time-in-college student for Gordon Rule or other purposes.
• All students seeking early college (dual) enrollment.
• All students, except college credit certificate-seeking, who took a placement examination more than two years ago,
• and whose scores were not used for placement decisions

• or whose scores were used for placement, but who have not yet passed a course in the corresponding subject area.

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