College readiness is connected to what’s called Minimum Learning Level. That is the academic comfort level while in high school. A certain ability to read, understand and write in English. Do Math theorems and riders with ease if not expertise. Grasp of concepts in Science. You should have gone through tests in the last two years in high-school with confidence.

Let me put it in the form of questions:

[1] When you read the History book, did you understand the text? (Reading comprehension)

[2] Could you write a cohesive, error-free summary of an experiment or a chapter in History? (Writing skill)

[3] Were you able to compare facts in Geography and write it down? (Analytical skill)

[4] Could you do the four Math functions? Percent, measurement and algebra? Follow word problems?

A politico asked me: colleges give admissions on certain criteria. Which means they take in students they feel will be able to cope with the college curriculum. If they do the work honestly, shouldn’t students be able to pass college courses?

This is a specious argument. When a teacher enters his college classroom, he assumes that the students have cleared the learning levels expected at high school. The teachers’ job is to build on them. They can’t start at ABC in English, nor Addition, etc. in Math. They have a syllabus too and books covering it. You can’t give a college freshman the same book given to a third grader for a book review.

So what makes you college ready?
A decent-level mastery in the four skills in English – listening, speaking, reading, writing. At the high-school level this translates to reading and writing.
Unless you are a literature student, higher-level comprehension of poetry and pure literature are not necessary to survive the freshman year.
But you do need the ability to read History, Science and Math texts with comprehension. And then write summaries of information and concepts you understood. Can you?
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