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Student Testing Services is responsible for:
Call (512) 232-2662, email us at ctl-testing@utlists.utexas.edu, or visit our office Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
We are in the Bridgeway Building (BWY) at 2616 Wichita Street. Look for the 3-story, stone building between the Student Services Building (SSB) and the 27th Street parking garage (TSG). On the UT Austin campus map you can find us here.
If you require academic accommodations or assistance due to a documented disability, contact these two offices at least five business days before the day of the test:
Yes. Although the non-refundable registration fee is the same for each test, the test fee itself can vary. To find out the total cost of the test you are interested in taking, visit the test description page or contact the Student Testing Services office.
UT Austin and its schools, colleges, and departments use the results of placement tests to position students in the courses most appropriate for their proficiency levels.
Yes. In some cases, students with qualifying scores from AP, SAT Subject, CLEP, or IB exams or with transfer or dual credit may be exempt from certain placement tests. For more information on exemptions, contact the Student Testing Services office.
There are many reasons to consider earning credit by examination, including:
Credit earned by examination satisfies degree requirements in the same way as credit earned by taking a course, except that it does not count as credit earned in residence. The credit will be recorded as credit only on your transcript, with the symbol CR.
To earn course credit by taking an exam, you must demonstrate that your knowledge is equivalent to that of students who complete the corresponding UT Austin course with at least a grade of a C-.
Ineligible test scores will not appear on your final transcript.
Current and former UT Austin students may request an examination called a Departmentally Administered Exam (DAE) for credit in any undergraduate course. Since the exam is administered individually by the department that offers the course, you must make special arrangements. Contact the Student Testing Services office for details.
Some tests are offered on a monthly basis, whereas other tests are offered at specific times during the school year.For general testing periods for a specific test, either visit the test description page of the test you are interested in or contact the Student Testing Services office.
Our test schedule only reflects one month’s test dates at a time.There may not be a date listed for the test you are interested in either because the test has already happened for the month or because the testing period in which the test is offered has not yet arrived. Usually at the end of the current month, the next month’s test dates will be posted (e.g., at the end of January, the February test dates will appear). Once a day and time become available through the test schedule for the test you are planning to take, you will be able to register yourself online for that exam. Unfortunately, we are unable to register you for a test before the date is available through the test schedule.
Once you have completed online registration for a test, you may return to the website at any time to cancel or change your registration. However, you will still be billed the non-refundable registration fee.
You will not be charged the test fee if you don’t sit for the test, but you will still be charged the non-refundable registration fee.
It depends. Although most of the tests that are given on campus can only be taken once, there are a few that can be retaken. For more information, visit the test description page of the test you are interested in or contact the Student Testing Services office.
Credits earned by examination will not automatically appear on your transcript. For each course in which you have earned credit by examination, you must petition in order to have the credit hours written to your official transcript.
You must petition online to have your credit reported to the registrar; the Student Testing Services staff cannot do so for you. No credit by examination will appear on your official transcript until you petition online for Student Testing Services to report it to the registrar.
If you are an entering freshman and have not yet started coursework, any credits that you petition for will not show up on your transcript until the first day of class. For current and former students, petitioned credits are reported to the Office of the Registrar on the first workday of each week (Monday, unless there is a holiday) at 1 a.m. and written to your transcript the following workday (Tuesday, unless there is a holiday).
The petition fee is $6 per credit hour, due within 14 days. There are three ways that you can pay:
Student Testing Services must receive an official score report from the testing agency that provided the examination. If you have not previously sent your scores in to UT Austin, visit the Sending Scores page for information on how to do so.If you have sent your scores in to UT Austin, either call or come by the Student Testing Services office to speak with an advisor. If possible, have your copy of the official score report available for the advisor.
While it is possible to stop a petition that has not been reported to the Office of the Registrar, credits that are written to your transcript are considered permanent. If you have petitioned for credits that you do not need or want, contact the Student Testing Services office immediately to find out what options are available to you.
Not everyone needs to take all of the placement tests that are offered at orientation—it often depends on a number of factors, including your major, what tests you have taken, and what kind of credits you have obtained from other colleges through transfer work or dual-credit. To find out which tests are most appropriate for you, either contact the Student Testing Services office or visit us for one of our Test Information Sessions on the first or second morning of your orientation session.
There are two primary ways to register for orientation tests:
When you register in either of these manners, you will not be charged for the test until after you take it.
A If you are still able to access your orientation selections through the New Student Services orientation website, you are welcome to cancel your test registration through the “Making Changes to Your Reservation” link. If you no longer have access to the orientation system, you do not need to worry about trying to cancel your test registration. As long as you registered through the orientation website for our tests, you have not yet been charged any testing fees. Students are only charged for a test after they take them, so if you do not show up for the test for which you registered, you will not be charged for it.
If you registered for a test through the orientation website or in person with Student Testing Services, you will be charged for any testing fees after you sit for the test. You will have up to two weeks to pay for these charges. There are three ways that you can pay:
Contact the Transfer Admissions Office (512-475-7387) for information about all incoming credit from other colleges and universities.
Contact the Distance Education Center at (512) 471-7716 or (512) 232-5000.
Contact the Distance Education Center at (512) 471-7716 or (512) 232-5000.
Contact the Distance Education Center at (512) 471-7716 or (512) 232-5000.
Contact the Distance Education Center at (512) 471-7716 or (512) 232-5000.
Contact the office of the Texas Success Initiative for all THEA questions. Call 512-471-8277 or visit the THEA website.
Contact a private psychologist.
UT Austin students may take aptitude tests for guidance in choice of major and career through the Sanger Learning & Career Center.