English Assessment

There are no enrollment restrictions for students with an ACT English sub-score of 19 or higher and/or an SAT Evidence-Based Reading/Writing score of 480 or higher. All incoming OU students who do not meet this threshold are required to take a writing assessment to determine whether they must take a developmental English course before moving on to ENGL 1113.

OU’s writing assessment/placement is given through the College Board’s Accuplacer program. Accuplacer uses web-based assessments designed to evaluate a student’s writing skills and measure a student's understanding of sentence structure, which is what makes a sentence complete and clear. Some questions deal with the logic of the sentence, and others with the relationships between two sentences.

The writing assessment is 25 questions and is untimed, although the average test takes about one hour.

If you have questions, please email the Assessment Center at ucac@ou.edu.

Once you have taken your writing assessment, you can review your course placement below.