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ALEKS Placement, Preparation, and Learning
ALEKS is a web-based placement assessment that uses artificial intelligence to map your mathematic strengths and weaknesses. Students majoring in Biochemistry, Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Human Physiology, Mathematics and Physics may be required to take the ALEKS math assessment for enrollment in their first-semester mathematics course. If you are required to complete a placement assessment, your schedule cannot be released until the assessment is complete.
Click here if you have taken ALEKS and want to know what your score means.
* Students with college credit for mathematics courses or qualifying AP Calculus credits may or may not need to take ALEKS. If your credit qualifies you to be exempt from this placement assessment, you will not receive an email directing you to take the exam. If you receive an email directing you to take ALEKS, it means that you are required to take the assessment.
Retaking ALEKS
Students have the option to retake ALEKS for an opportunity to improve their scores. The highest score that a student receives will be used to determine their placement. The following restrictions apply:
- Upon completion of ALEKS, there will be a mandatory 24-hour cool-off period before you can retake the assessment again.
- After the first assessment attempt, and following the 24-hour cool-off period, students can retake the assessment after spending a minimum of 3 hours in the Prep and Learning Module. This time spent in the Prep and Learning Module will remind you of some of the concepts you may have forgotten and will help you be more successful on your second test attempt. Log back into your ALEKS account to access the Prep and Learning Module and retake the assessment.
- Students may retake ALEKS a third time, after 24-hours from their second attempt, and 5 hours spent in the Prep and Learning Module.
- A student may take ALEKS three times only. Placement will be final after the third attempt.
- It is the student's responsibility to inform the Advising office that he/she has retaken ALEKS. Please email us at advise@gonzaga.edu.
If you have questions, please visit the ALEKS FAQs page.