TAMUC - TSI Math Placement

[ReyMysterioso]

My partner is trying to enroll in TAMUC but despite having an Associate's already with Beginning and Intermediate Algebra already completed at a community college and on the transcript, they are not allowing my partner to enroll without first taking the Math TSI placement exam.

Did anyone else have to do that? Or were you exempt from it? And if exempt, how so? 

I had a prior bachelor's when I enrolled, so they waived most of the normal requirements. This situation is turning out to be more difficult than I anticipated.