TSIA

The Texas Success Initiative Assessment (TSIA) is how the State of Texas determines what level of college level courses in reading, writing, and mathematics students should take.

For students who earn a 480 EBRW and 530 MATH SAT score, your SAT score is classified as "College Ready" and is used as your placement score in your transition to colleges in Texas.

If you did not earn a 480 EBRW or a 530 MATH SAT score, your college counselor will be talking with you about taking the TSIA.

What is the TSIA?

The Texas Success Initiative Assessment is a standard test that Texas colleges administer to students enrolling in college to place students in the proper reading, writing, and math courses. This placement test ensures students are taking the right classes as college freshmen, to help them succeed as a freshman and in their future college courses. Taking the right first college course is crucial to students overall success in college.

Who needs to take the TSIA?

What does it mean to be "College Ready"?

For students who earn a 480 EBRW and 530 MATH SAT score, your SAT score is classified as "College Ready" and is used as your placement score in your transition to colleges in Texas. YES Prep supports all students through SAT Prep during their Junior and Senior Year with 93% of Seniors taking the SAT at least two times, getting to improve their scores.

If you did not earn a 480 EBRW or a 530 MATH SAT score, your college counselor will be talking with you about taking the TSIA.

Why should students take TSIA?

Earning a college ready score on the TSIA give students an extra opportunity to demonstrate they are ready for college-level courses.

Any student wishing to enroll in a Texas public college or university, whether 2- or 4-year, is placed in their first semester math, reading, and writing courses based on their SAT Scores or TSIA placement. A student without TSIA scores, who is not exempted as college ready, will not be allowed to register for courses. Additionally students could be assigned to take remedial courses, when they don't need to. This means that students may spend more time and money taking courses that do not help them make academic progress toward earning a degree.   

Finally for students who are seeking to pursue college outside of Texas, the TSIA is powered by College Board's Accuplacer Exam. Accuplacer is the national leader in placement exams so test results may be able to be submitted to private colleges and out of state colleges through Accuplacer.

What resources are available to prepare for TSIA?

TSIA Day at YES Prep

YES Prep will offer seniors an opportunity to sit for the TSIA at their YES Prep campuses in the spring semester. The assessment is free of cost for students who test on this day. Typically, students who take the TSIA at a college or university must pay up to $30 for the assessment. Should a student want or need to test off campus, they will be responsible for any required fees. 

To learn when YES Prep will be offering this test, free of charge, click here.

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