Take a Diagnostic Test on Your Own

Use this procedure if your instructor is not requiring 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 diagnostic tests. In this case, you do not have access to them. Also, only the instructor can give you access to the Lexile Diagnostic (reading level) test.

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

1. Click the Study Plan tab.
2. Expand the subject, Writing or Reading, for which you want to take pre-tests.

   The diagnostic pre-tests are listed at the top of a subject's topic list.

3. Click the Diagnostic Pre-Tests link.

   The test's Activities are displayed.

4. Click an Activities link or a Begin button to start the test.
5. Select an answer and click the Submit button.

   The next question is displayed.

6. 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.

7. Click the Go to Study Plan button to return to the Study Plan.

See also:

Diagnostic Detail Report | The Study Plan

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