https://nu.federati.net/url/290885

Apparently, the rules changed in 2017. Prior to this, new students at California Community Colleges had to take an assessment test before they could register for classes ... the assessment determined which classes they were allowed to take.

Which was good, because transfer-level Freshman Composition, Freshman Literature, and Freshman Algebra I / Freshman Algebra II courses were often considered too hard by students, especially those who'd been out of the school system for a number of years.

I wonder how they're doing it now that they are weighing high school scores more than the test. (And note, the test was required to be accurate for the population of students, so it was much more specific than a nationwide college admissions test.)

When I was in high school, I was bored and highly stressed, so my GPA was a lot lower than one would expect. In fact, I flunked an English class (along with 25+ others out of 30 in the class; the instructor was already retiring after that school year, but if she hadn't already planned it, she likely would have quit anyway) because I wasn't going to do schoolwork during my off time, so I did not write a term paper.