For the next two years, students entering Oregon's 17 community colleges and 7 universities may choose to waive placement testing if they scored a 3 or 4 on Smarter Balanced assessments and met requirements for continued academic rigor during 12th grade. These new agreements were adopted in February 2015 and will be piloted for the next two academic years, starting with the graduating high school class of 2016.
Under the agreements, students who: