Tennessee Tech University

Removal of HS Course Deficiencies

A-89 Admissions Requirements for Tennessee Board of Regents Institutions

Tennessee Board of Regents Admissions Standards implemented in Fall 1989 apply to all students graduating from any in-state or out-of-state high school or those receiving the GED certificate Spring 1989 and thereafter.

Students should present a high school transcript containing evidence of satisfactory completion of the high school core courses in the following areas. Students who have deficiencies in English or Algebra are subject to applicable provisions governing Developmental Studies. These provisions are identified in Guideline A-100.

General Guidelines:

• Students who have deficiencies in English or Algebra are subject to applicable provisions governing Developmental Studies. These provisions are identified in Guideline A-100.
• Students who are admitted with deficiencies are required to complete courses to remove those deficiencies within the first 60 semester hours of residency. Failure to remove the deficiencies within the allotted time will result in expulsion from the university.
• Satisfactory ACT scores or COMPASS tests in English and reading are used to determine the placement of students requiring removal of unit deficiencies in English.
• Satisfactory ACT scores or COMPASS mathematics tests are used to determine the placement of students requiring removal of unit deficiencies in Algebra I or II.
• Consequently, students deficient in English or mathematics units may remove those deficiencies by (1) scoring at COMPASS college course placement levels and thereby demonstrating competency, (2) completing DSP courses indicated by COMPASS placement, or (3) scoring 26 or above on the ACT composite. [ACT scores presented after COMPASS assessment are not considered valid for release from requirements.]
• Removal of deficiencies in areas other than English and mathematics requires completion of courses specified for that purpose.
• Students may remove deficiencies in social studies, history, visual/performing arts, science, and geometry/advanced mathematics by completing the appropriate blocks of subject categories in the TBR Forty-One Semester Hour General Education Curriculum. Courses taken to remove deficiencies in the affected subjects also apply toward fulfillment of general education requirements.

Approved Courses for General Education

Communication

Humanities and Fine Arts

Social/Behavioral Sciences

History

Natural Sciences

Mathematics

Revised A89 High School Deficiency Policy / UPDATE: August 2007

The Tennessee Board of Regents and the TBR Presidents have revised the A89 High School Deficiency Policy.

• Approved List of High School Courses. Only specific and approved high school courses may be applied to meeting the minimum unit requirements for admission. Because high school curricula may change from time to time, the TBR staff will periodically, after consultation with the State Department of Education, disseminate the current list to each institution. Institutions may propose for consideration high school courses they consider to have been inappropriately omitted
• Students may remove deficiencies in social studies, history, visual/performing arts, science, and geometry/advanced mathematics by completing the appropriate blocks of subject categories in the TBR Forty-One Semester Hour General Education Curriculum. Courses taken to remove deficiencies in the affected subjects also apply toward fulfillment of general education requirements.
• Students who have deficiencies in English or Algebra are subject to applicable provisions governing Developmental Studies. These provisions are identified in Guideline A-100.
• Students may remove deficiencies of one or two units of a single foreign language through completion of an approved semester course in a single foreign language for each unit deficiency as specified by the collegiate institution. Courses used to complete deficiencies in foreign language may be designated as electives and apply toward fulfillment of graduation requirements; however, in certain courses of study with restricted ranges of electives, these courses may become add-on hours.
• Students whose primary language is not English will be deemed to have satisfied the minimum unit requirements in foreign language if they demonstrate proficiency in English through achieving satisfactory scores on the TOEFL Examination or other recognized instrument as designated by the collegiate institution.

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