Manual placement testing is one of those processes institutions stop seeing — it has always been laborious, so the labor reads as normal. It is not. Most of it is logistics, not assessment.
What manual placement actually costs
Days of staff time per intake on printing, supervising, marking, and transcription — plus the errors transcription invites, and the delay between test and result during which students cannot be scheduled, grouped, or advised. Students arriving across a spread of dates make it worse: latecomers need individual sittings, each one its own small event to organize. The assessment itself, the part that matters, is a fraction of the effort.
What quiz-based placement changes
Students complete the assessment online — before arrival, where appropriate — and scores arrive instantly, consistently marked, already attached to the student record. Staff move directly to the decisions placement exists to inform: which level, which group, which support. Late arrivals take the same quiz the day they appear, no special sitting required.
Six steps inside SumHubs
You don't have to start from a blank page.
Entry assessment and placement quizzes is a free SumHubs template — set up with your levels and score bands in an afternoon. Request a sample hub to see your assessment in it.