Math Placement Test

For New Students:

All first-year students and most transfer students are required to take the Merrimack College Mathematics Placement Test. This test is available on-line through the college’s Blackboard Academic Suite. To take this test, follow the link below. Your Blackboard username is your last name followed by your first initial, or your last name followed by your first initial and your middle initial. Your Blackboard password is your student identification number followed by your 5-digit zip code. For example, if your name is Helena Kathleen Simpson, id #12345, zip code 01845, then your username = simpsonh or simpsonhk and your password = 1234501845. Once you log in, select the “course” Math Placement Test where you will find additional instructions about taking the test and interpreting your results. Here is the Blackboard link.

If you have any questions before, during, or after the test, please contact Dr. Michael Bradley, Chair of the Department of Mathematics, at 978-837-5201 or by e-mail at Dr. Michael Bradley.

For Current Merrimack College Students:

Before you can register for any mathematics course at Merrimack College, you must demonstrate your ability to do college-level mathematics either by taking the Merrimack College Mathematics Placement Test (MPT) or by presenting transfer credit for a college-level math course from another academic institution. If you have transfer credit for a math course, you must still fulfill the stated prerequisites of any math course for which you wish to register. Our MPT is administered as a “course” through the college’s Blackboard Academic Suite.

If you have not taken the MPT but are enrolled in the MPT “course” on Blackboard, you can log in, read the directions, and complete the portions of the test that are appropriate for your major. When you have completed the MPT, send an e-mail to Dr. Michael Bradley, Chair of the Department of Mathematics, at Dr. Michael Bradley informing him of this fact; in this e-mail, please indicate your major, so he can tell the Registrar’s Office which math courses you should be allowed to take.

If you have not taken the MPT and it is not listed on Blackboard as one of the course in which you are currently enrolled, contact Dr. Michael Bradley, Chair of the Department of Mathematics, at 978-837-5201 or by e-mail at Dr. Michael Bradley.

If you have previously taken the MPT but do not feel that the test result is an accurate reflection of you current level of mathematical ability, you may retake the test in a proctored environment by making an appointment with Mrs. Kathleen Mushow LeBlanc, Secretary of the Department of Mathematics, at 978-837-5000 x4202 or by e-mail at Kathleen.Mushow@Merrimack.edu.