Testing

  • Testing Requirements to Attend HCC
    The State of Texas and HCC require that all students must test to determine their readiness to enroll.
  • Career and Technology Education Testing Requirments
    All new HCC students should be assessed prior to their first enrollment on one of the State-approved tests or show exemption from the TSI state requirement.
  • ASSET: Description and Cost
    The Assessment Skills for Successful Entry and Transfer (ASSET) is a paper pencil administered test that assesses skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.
  • CLEP: Description and Cost
    The College-Level Examination Program® or CLEP provides students of any age with the opportunity to demonstrate college-level achievement through a program of exams in undergraduate college courses.
  • COMPASS: Description and Cost
    The Computer Adaptive Placement Assessment and Support System (COMPASS) test assesses skills in reading, writing, and mathematics.
  • Correspondence Testing: Decription and Cost
    Test that are proctored from other colleges and universities.
  • TEAS: Description
    The Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS®) is an assessment of basic academic knowledge in reading, mathematics, science and English and language usage.
  • THEA: Description and Cost
    The Texas Higher Education Assessment (THEA; formerly TASP) test assesses skills in reading, writing and mathematics.
  • Sample Test Questions
    Access sample questions and practice tests for THEA, ASSET, COMPASS and COMPASS ESL.
  • HCC Testing Locations
    Find the nearest location to you.
  • Re-Test Policy
    When students take a test that could impact the educational choices they wish to make, sometimes students are unhappy with the assessment results and thereby wish to retest.
  • Testing FAQs