Take the diagnostic self-assessments

Begin your course work by taking a diagnostic that evaluates your skills. The MyLab assesses your results and adds Resource topics that will help you strengthen your skills to My Study Plan.

There are self-assessment diagnostics in grammar and research, and your scores are recorded in your Gradebook. You can start a diagnostic, quit, and finish it later; however, you cannot retake a diagnostic.

The diagnostics are at the top of the Resource topic lists for Grammar and Research. You can access them by either navigating Resources or using the following procedure.

Note: If the self-assessment diagnostics are not listed on the Home page or in Resources, your instructor may have hidden them.

To take the self-assessment diagnostics:

1. Click the Home tab.
2. Click Grammar Self-Assessment Diagnostics or Research Self-Assessment Diagnostics under To Do.

   The MyLab opens Resources and displays the diagnostic's exercises.

3. Click the title of the exercise that you want to take.

   

4. Select an answer and click the Submit button to go on to the next question.

   To stop the exercise and continue it later, click the Stop to Resume Later button. Then, when you are ready, repeat this procedure to complete the exercise.

After you submit the last answer, the MyLab displays your results. This screen lists all the Topics covered by the diagnostic exercise and shows your Score for each topic. While you are viewing this screen, you can:

• Click a Topic link to go to that topic in Resources.
• Click a Review link to display the topic's diagnostic questions, your answers, and whether your answers were correct or incorrect.

The MyLab also displays your overall score in Resources and in theTopic Results Summary in the Gradebook. Based on the results of the diagnostic, My Study Plan now lists Resource topics that will help you improve your skills.

Tip: To redisplay the results grid, click the diagnostic score in either Resources or the Topic Results Summary in the Gradebook.

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