What Are All of These Tests?
A Helpful Guide to Understanding Educational Assessment.
Advanced Placement (AP) is a cooperative educational endeavor between secondary schools and colleges and universities. AP allows motivated high school students with the opportunity to take college-level courses in a high school setting. Currently there are 37 courses and exams across 22 subject areas in the AP program. www.collegeboard.com/. Please see our Advanced Placement page.
Rancho Bernardo PTSA and Princeton Review offer mock tests for SAT, ACT, and PSAT. These tests give students a chance to take tests, receive their scores, and learn strategies to utilize before they take the real SAT and ACT tests. These tests do not get sent to colleges and give students a chance to get accustomed to standardized tests prior to taking actual exams.
These mock exams are a fundraiser for the PTSA and all profits are utilized to support Rancho Bernardo programs. The PTSA recommends that freshmen and sophomores take the mock PSAT and that sophomores and juniors take the mock SAT and/or ACT so they are ready in their junior year to take the real tests.
SAT is a test that is used by colleges as a part of its admissions process. The SAT Reasoning Test is a measure of the critical thinking skills you'll need for academic success in college. The SAT assesses how well students analyze and solve problems--skills learned in school that are needed in college. The SAT is typically taken by high school juniors and seniors.
FIRST: Register online at www.palomar.edu/ – Enroll for summer of your graduation year. You cannot take the assessments unless you have registered.
SAVE: Your Palomar College ID number. You must bring it with you when you sign up in the Bronco Center AND when you take the test. Sign up in the Bronco Center NOW.
REPORT: To the Library on the day and time you chose. Don’t be late.
BRING: A picture ID with you along with your Palomar College ID #.
MAKE: An appointment with a Palomar College counselor (after you complete the assessments) on any “EAP” Saturday, through May.
LAST: You are now ready to register for classes on any computer and at any location.
Palomar Scholarships: www.palomar.edu/ .Click on FinancialAid/Scholarships.
There is also a copy of the Palomar Scholarship in the Bronco Center.
The SABE/2 Spanish-language test battery gives an accurate and useful picture of students' academic strengths and weaknesses and provides the detailed information teachers need to plan effective individual and group instruction.