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The first thing students do after they are enrolled to Cerritos College is to take assesment tests in english and math.

The results show whether students are ready for college level courses or if they need to take remedial courses.

According to a study on californiawatch.org, 34 percent of high school graduates were ready for college.

According to Marilyn Brock, interim vice president of academic affairs, there are a variety of things that California high schools can do to help students get into college level courses.

“First would be to reduce their class size because in many cases, their class size is too large and students are getting lost,” Brock said.

“Second, I think [professors] could be more specific about teaching the basic reading, writing and math so that the students would have benchmarks all the way through high school that they have to achieve so that they actually take care of the basic skills need of our students before they transition here.”

The consequence of not reaching college level classes is that students instead have to take remedial classes to build there way up to the college level classes.

This can set students back several semesters depending on how they score, which can definitely interfere with a student’s transfer schedule by slowing them down.

California’s scores have exceeded the national average and continues making small improvements each year.