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Take a Diagnostic Test on Your Own

Use this procedure if your instructor is not requiring the diagnostic tests, but you want to take them on your own. You can also use this procedure if you are working in a course on your own.

Note: If you are working in an instructor-led course, your instructor may have chosen not to display the reading-skill diagnostic tests. In this case, you do not have access to them.

To take a reading-skill diagnostic test on your own:

Click the Study Plan tab.
Diagnostic pre-tests are listed at the top of the topic list on the Reading Skills tab. Any assigned diagnostics are marked as Required on the Reading Skills tab and they are listed on the View Calendar tab.
Click the Diagnostic Pre-Test link.
The test's Activities are displayed. If the Activities also have Due Dates, your instructor has assigned this diagnostic and you need to complete it by the due date.
Click an Activities link or a Begin button to start the test.
Select an answer and click the Submit button.
The next question is displayed.
Continue selecting answers and clicking the Submit button to finish the test.
If you want to quit and finish the test later, click the Stop to Resume Later button. When you come back to the test, click the Resume button to pick up where you left off.
After you complete the last question, the MyLab displays your test results.
- A green check mark indicates that a topic is mastered. Depending on how you answered certain test questions, you may have already mastered some of the topics.
- Click a topic's Review link to display the diagnostic questions that pertain to that topic.
- Click the Review link for the Overall Results to display all the diagnostic questions, showing which ones you answered correctly and incorrectly.
Click the Go to Study Plan button to return to the Study Plan.