Take a Diagnostic Test on Your Own
Use this procedure if you want to take the diagnostic tests in any of these circumstances:
- Your instructor has assigned diagnostics that all students need to complete.
- Your instructor has recommended that you take the diagnostic tests.
- You are working in a course on your own (without an instructor).
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.
To take a diagnostic test on your own:
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Click the Study Plan tab.
Diagnostic pre-tests are listed at the top of the topic list on the Writing Skills tab. Any assigned diagnostics are marked as Required on the Writing Skills tab and they are listed on the View Calendar tab.
- Click the Diagnostic Pre-Tests 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.
See also:
Overview: Diagnostic Evaluations | Diagnostic Detail Report | The Study Plan