Plant-based diet. A plant-based diet is a diet based on foods derived from plants, including vegetables, whole grains, legumes and fruits, but with few or no animal products.
The COMPASS is a computerized test used by many different schools to evaluate skills and place students in appropriate college courses. Unlike many other standardized tests, COMPASS tests are not timed. There are several different tests offered in the COMPASS series:
ACT is phasing out Compass, a popular but controversial college placement test that colleges use to determine whether students need to take remedial courses. Community colleges and nonselective four-year institutions rely heavily on Compass and Accuplacer, a similar test from the College Board. Both assessments are low-cost, computerized and relatively quick ways of assessing studentsâ abilities in reading, writing and mathematics.