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CUNY Proficiency Examination (CPE)
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Beginning in Fall 2003, all students, regardless of when they
first entered CUNY, are required to take and pass the CUNY
Proficiency Examination (CPE) to graduate from Hostos Community
College. Students are required to take the CPE after they have
earned their 45th credit. Students have the option to take the
CPE in the term in which they reach their 45th credit. The CPE
is currently administered 4 times a year: January, March, July,
and October.
The CPE tests students' ability to understand and think
critically about ideas and information, and to write clearly,
logically and correctly at a level associated with success in
upper-division courses. The CPE contains two tasks: Analytic
Reading and Writing; and Analyzing and Integrating Material from
Graphs and Texts. Students are provided with complete
information when they register for the CPE.
Students may take the CPE three (3) times in order to pass
it. Students who do not take the CPE when they are required to
do so, forfeit that opportunity to take the test.
Students who fail or are absent from the CPE three (3) times
are not permitted to register at the College. These students may
petition the CPE Appeals Committee to take the test a fourth
time. If permission is granted for a fourth chance to take the
CPE and the student fails, the student will not be permitted to
register at the College or anywhere else in the University as a
matriculated student. These students may apply to the CPE
Appeals Committee to take the CPE. If the student passes the
CPE, the student's matriculated status will be restored.
Students with a bachelor's degree or higher, from an
accredited college, are exempted from the CPE requirement for
graduation.
Since CPE rules and regulations change and are updated,
students should contact the Office of Student Assessment for
more detailed information about the CPE and its requirements.
For more information contact:
Office of Student Assessment
500 Grand Concourse
Room B-207
(718) 319-7921
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