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.

ENGLISH Course Placement	Accuploacer Score
DENG 0113	200-254
ENGL 1113	255-300

Empowering student success through accurate placement into OU courses is the primary focus of all assessments. Therefore all work should result from the student’s own understanding and effort. (See OU’s Student Guide for Academic Integrity for additional information.)

Important Notice: As per Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education policy, students testing into developmental/remedial coursework must successfully remediate deficient subject areas at the earliest possible time, within the first 24 college-level hours attempted.