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Computation will be based on all academic work completed at Georgia Perimeter
College. At least 27 semester hours must be earned at Georgia Perimeter College to
receive consideration for honors.
REGENTS’ TEST
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia instituted the Regents’
Testing Program to ensure that students receiving degrees possess certain minimum
reading and writing skills. The passing or exempting the Regents’ Test is a
graduation requirement from GPC.
Once a student has passed ENGL 1101 and ENGL 1102, he or she will
be considered exempt from taking the Regents’ Test.
Other Exemptions:
Students will be considered to have fulfilled the reading comprehension requirement
of the Regents’ Test if they have:
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SAT-I Verbal scores of at least 510
•
ACT Reading scores of at least 23
(Scores must be from a
national
administration of these tests.)
Students will be considered as having fulfilled the essay requirement of the Regents’
Test if they have:
•
AP English scores of at least 3
•
IB higher level English scores of at least 4
•
SAT-II English Writing scores of at least 650
•
SAT I Writing scores of at least 560
•
SAT Reasoning, Writing Section Test: 500 for students who also have at
least 510 on the SAT Reasoning, Critical Reading Section.
•
ACT Combined English/Writing test: 22 for students who also have at least
23 on the ACT Reading Test.
(Scores must be from a
national
administration of these tests.)
STUDENT SERVICES AND POLICIES
OFFICES
ADVISING, COUNSELING AND RETENTION SERVICES
Advising, Counseling, and Retention Services (ACRS) provides supportive curricular
and co-curricular guidance to students to support their educational, career, and life
goals.
These include:
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Academic and Transfer Advisement, including Transfer Admission
Guarantee (TAG);
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Career Development Assessments;
•
Learning Support Programs;
•
Program of Study Evaluations;
•
Student Success Workshops (e.g., time management, test taking, time
management, etc);
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Comprehensive Personal Counseling.
It is the intent of the Advising, Counseling, and Retention Services to provide
students with services that will assist in their academic and personal success.
