Your verbal SAT score was below 470.

The Rutgers University Reading Comprehension test you took this summer was difficult and you had to guess a lot. You may not have finished all the passages in time.

You like to read, but you haven't had much practice reading academic texts. You need to read essays several times to understand key arguments and points.

In high school, you had difficulty summarizing or remembering the argument or plot of an essay or story you read.

You may enjoy writing, but often you find it difficult to write more than two pages for an assignment.

When you write an essay, you are unsure where to start, you wander from the assignment, or you repeat points too much.

You are eager to learn.

You often wait until the last minute to start your class assignment. You feel you could do much better if you had more time.

While you are an Honors student, the English class you took in high school did not stress critical reading and writing.

In high school, you have written very few papers.

You're not sure about parts of speech in a sentence, and you sometimes struggle with vocabulary and grammar.

You guessed a lot on the Rutgers University Sentence Sense test you took this summer.

You speak another language and sometimes that makes it difficult to write comfortably in English.

You don't yet know how to use quotations or how to write an introduction and conclusion. You are not confident about how to organize a paper or use an author's ideas.