At the Testing Center we provide a variety of testing services for NTC students and community partners. If you have any questions, please call us at 715.803.1398, email us at testingcenter@ntc.edu, or stop in to Room C163 at the Wausau Campus.
Accuplacer Testing
Guidelines
- A current (non-expired) photo ID is required (Examples of a current photo ID include: driver's license, passport, Military ID or State ID)
- Accuplacer – This test measures a student’s academic skill level in the areas of arithmetic; quantitative reasoning, algebra and statistics; reading comprehension and writing.
- Fees: $25 for Accuplacer
- To prepare for the Accuplacer by the web based App or for My Foundations Lab, please visit http://accuplacer.collegeboard.org/students.
- Required admissions test scores vary by program.
Wausau Campus
To complete the Accuplacer at the Wausau campus, please e-mail us at testingcenter@ntc.edu or call us at 715.803.1398 to schedule your exam.
Regional Campuses
Accuplacer Testing is available at all of the regional campuses. To schedule your test, please call the appropriate number below.
Antigo: 715.348.7747
Medford: 715.748.3603
Phillips: 715.339.4555 Ext. 7601
Spencer: 715.659.5120
Wittenberg: 715.253.3500
Past Accuplacer Scores
To request a copy of your Accuplacer Score, please complete the Test Score Release Form and return it to our office with the appropriate fee (see form).
Accuplacer Retest Policy
Students are permitted to retest after working with a College Prep Center instructor for a minimum of 4 hours to review content material. CPC instructors will help determine if the student is ready to retest through any combination of Accuplacer practice, TABE assessment, and/or alternate assessment that covers the retest content areas. CPC instructors will verify the student has reviewed material for the required minimum amount of time, if not more, and has successfully completed practice materials.
ACCUPLACER tests have high test-retest reliability coefficient, a measure of consistency of scores obtained by the same person when reexamined with the same test on different occasions. This means that if students retest without review and study, there is a high probability that their scores will not change appreciably. A review of ACCUPLACER data shows that two weeks is the optimal waiting period since it allows students adequate time to locate study materials and sufficient time to review them.
Apprenticeship Testing
- Apprenticeship test battery consists of five parts: 1. mechanical reasoning, 2. spatial relations, 3. arithmetic, 4. quantitative reasoning, algebra and statistics, and 5. reading comprehension
- Mechanical Reasoning – the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Test (BMCT) is the most widely used and trusted assessment of mechanical aptitude. The test measures mechanical reasoning ability and working knowledge of basic mechanical operations and physical laws
- Spatial Relations – The Differential Aptitude Test: Next Generation measures the ability to visualize a three-dimensional object from a two dimensional pattern, and to visualize how this object would look if rotated in space. Space relations predict success in positions that require the ability to mentally create and manipulate images derived from written plans.
- Accuplacer – This test measures a student’s academic skill level in the areas of arithmetic; quantitative reasoning, algebra and statistics and reading comprehension.
- Fees: $25 for Accuplacer, $30 for Bennett Mechanical, $25 for Spatial Relations
- Scores for all three tests will be available within 3 business days.
- For more information, go to: https://accuplacer.collegeboard.org/educator/about-accuplacer
To complete apprenticeship testing please e-mail us at testingcenter@ntc.edu or call us at 715.803.1398.
Prometric — ASE (Automotive Service Excellence)
Prometric — ASE Testing is available only at the Wausau Campus.
ASE is an independent, non-profit organization, and since 1972 have worked to improve the quality of vehicle repair and service by testing and certifying repair and service professionals. Auto technicians and other professionals who want to become ASE certified can take one or more of ASE’s 40+ exams. The exams are grouped into specialties such as automobile, medium/heavy truck, truck equipment, school bus, collision repair, and more.
For more information go to: https://www.ase.com/tests
You must register with ASE and provide payment. If NTC doesn’t show up as a testing site, please call Candidate Care at 800.853.6769.
GED/HSED Testing
GED/HSED Transcripts
Kryterion Testing
Certiport Testing (Microsoft Office, Intuit Quickbooks)
No proctor fee for WTCS students; $25 otherwise.
More information on Certiport testing can be found at http://www.certiport.com
Wausau Campus
Complete Certiport testing at the Wausau campus with the following steps:
- Purchase an exam voucher: visit Certiport at https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Buy/Individual
Once you've purchased a voucher, please schedule your exam.
Regional Campuses
Certiport Testing is available at all of the regional campuses. To schedule your test, please call the appropriate number below.
Antigo: 715.348.7747
Medford: 715.748.3603
Phillips: 715.339.4555 Ext. 7601
Spencer: 715.659.5120
Wittenberg: 715.253.3500
Pearson VUE
Pearson VUE provides a full suite of services from test development to data management, and delivers exams through the world’s most comprehensive and secure network of test centers in 175 countries.
Payment must be made at the time of scheduling. Registration for Pearson VUE testing can be completed through the Pearson view website: http://www.pearsonvue.com/
Test-Proctoring
There is no fee for students in the Wisconsin Technical College system. For non-WTCS students the fee is $25 per exam.
Wausau Campus
If you are an NTC student, student at another college, or need to take an exam for a certification course, please request proctoring services at the Wausau campus, by completing the form below.
Other NTC Campuses
Proctoring services are also available at our regional campuses. Please contact the campus where you would like to test to request proctoring.
Health Education Systems, Inc. (HESI) A2
HESI Testing is only available at the Wausau Campus.
The HESI A2 is a required exam for admission into NTC’s Nursing, Dental Hygienist, and Radiography programs. It assesses academic readiness through sections in Math, Reading, Chemistry, and Anatomy & Physiology.
To learn more about the HESI A2 exam, visit: www.ntc.edu/admissions/evaluating-readiness/hesi.
To schedule your HESI A2exam, call the NTC Registration Line at 715.803.1646. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.
UWSP at Wausau Math Placement Testing
- The math placement test is not a test that has a grade. The purpose of the placement test is to help us determine which math class you should start with. The test includes questions from beginning algebra to calculus.
- NTC students will need to take the UW math placement test if they plan to take a math or science class through UWSP at Wausau that has a math prerequisite they haven’t met or if they have not taken any math classes at NTC yet.
- For students requesting test accommodations, before scheduling an exam, they must first email Tim O’Connor at tmoconno@wisc.edu and provide the following information:
- Name
- Email address
- Date of birth
- Campus they plan to attend (UWSP at Wausau)
- Accommodations being requested
- Documentation verifying the disability and need for the accommodations
- Students can send a copy of their NTC accommodations as documentation for the placement test accommodations.
- If the student does not have accommodations at NTC yet, their documentation should be either a letter on High School letterhead from your counselor or someone else at the school familiar with your accommodations, stating what those accommodations have been for tests such as the ACT, or a current IEP or 504 plan. The IEP or 504 Plan must be from within the last three years.