The SAT is not the only college placement test being talked about.

The Boston Globe reports.

College placement exam raises concerns

One three-hour exam decides the fate of many Massachusetts college students. It isn’t the much-feared SAT exam, but it’s proving to be nearly as controversial.

Called the Accuplacer, the test is taken by many of the 35,000 students who enter public colleges and universities each year — and critics are questioning whether it is, in fact, what its name suggests: an accurate way to place students into the proper college courses.

Each year, the test sends one in three Massachusetts public school graduates into remedial classes, primarily in math, at the state’s public colleges. Experts here and beyond are divided on the reason: whether the high schoolers are simply unprepared for college, or whether the test is deeply flawed and should be scrapped.

“It’s hard to predict who is going to do well in college-level courses on the basis of these one-off, relatively short exams,” said Judith Scott-Clayton, an assistant professor in economics and education at Columbia University.