TESTING AND EVALUATION

www.baruch.cuny.edu/ote

The Skills Assessment Examinations establish the minimum standards in reading, writing, and mathematics for all students throughout The City University of New York system. These tests are designed to determine admissions eligibility into the senior colleges as well measure a student’s readiness for college-level instruction. Students who do not pass one or more skills exams must be retested after attending specified programs.

The CUNY Proficiency Examination (CPE) is required of all CUNY students who have completed 45 credits. Students must pass the test by the time they complete their 60th credit. The CPE tests your ability to understand and think critically about ideas and information and to write clearly, logically, and correctly at a level associated with success in upper division courses.

The Office of Testing and Evaluation also administers the SimNet Examination that students must pass in order to be eligible to take CIS 2200 (required for the pre-business core).

Additionally it administers the Student Course and Faculty Evaluation Program. Students can see how others have rated their professors by checking the Baruch website at www.baruch.cuny.edu/studentaffairs/StudentLife/evaluations/.