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| Who must take the COMPASS |  Note, the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) requires all universities, community colleges, and technical institutes in its system to follow certain requirements for admitting students. You must meet these requirements, if you apply for regular freshman admission. The requirements below are TBR minimums for regular freshman admission.
• If you are under twenty-one years of age, you must submit an official ACT or SAT score when you apply to be admitted. In case you have not taken the ACT or SAT, you will have to pay for and take the ACT before enrolling. When your ACT scores are less than three years old as of the first day of classes for the term for which you are planning to enroll, you will be placed automatically by your ACT English, Math, and Reading subscores.
• You may accept the ACT Placement, or if you wish to challenge this placement, you may take the COMPASS test before registering for courses. The Math, Reading and English subscores of the ACT are used to determine which COMPASS tests you will need to take.
• If you are twenty-one years old or older, you must take the full battery of COMPASS tests before registering for courses, or you may be screened according to your ACT score if it is less than three years old.
• If you enroll in a college-level course and do not have the skills needed to succeed there, you will be referred for further testing, advising, and placement. The part of this may be the COMPASS.
• If you are a transfer student who has no college-level course in Mathematics and/or English, you must be tested in the appropriate COMPASS subject area(s). The ACT is also considered in determining testing requirements, if you have fewer than 9 transferable hours.
• If you lack a high school unit in English or Algebra required for University Admission or Admission to a University Parallel Program at a 2-year college, you must remove this deficiency through the COMPASS Math or English requirements.
Forgoing are minimum requirements. Your school may require more.
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