<p>Does anyone know what the Spanish placement test is like? I took three years in high school but that was Freshman-Junior year.
Also, If i place into say Spanish 2 by the test, can I still self-place into Spanish 3?</p>
<p>All I know is that the test is 100% multiple choice from the website. </p>
<p>I’m not sure but I think it may be user adaptive as well (as in it gets more difficult as you do better like the GRE) since the test is held at the Lu Valle computer lab.</p>
<p>I’m in my third quarter of Russian and I really hope they change the requirement soon so I can get out of this class.
I got three years of Spanish. Just didn’t take the AP test.</p>
<p>I took the spanish placement test zero week this year, after four years of spanish and not taking it in my senior year. I studied nonchalantly for like two weeks prior to coming to UCLA and I felt that my studying didn’t help at all. It was more like short reading comprehension than anything else. 100% multiple choice in a computer lab, just read passages and answer questions.</p>
<p>Placed into Spanish 4 after thinking I failed it.</p>
<p>^ Did it test preterite, past perfect etc?</p>
<p>Cause all I remember from Spanish is present and preterite tense despite 3 years, just barely passed enough for a B the last two years of it. =/</p>
<p>Haha. I used to be a foreign language requirement hater. Then I actually took the damn Spanish 1 class, loved it, now am a linguistics and spanish major, and couldn’t be happier.</p>
<p>But, I do hope they drop the stupid requirement so my spanish classes will be easier to get :D</p>
<p>Bump for silvercrosses post above…</p>
<p>I only remember simple conjugations for the present.</p>
<p>Sorry, one more question…</p>
<p>Can you take the placement test and if you don’t pass, say you place into level 2, can you still self-place into a higher level?</p>
<p>IIRC, there was very minimal conjugation of any kind and you cannot take the placement test again.</p>
<p>OK, I’m a bit behind on this subject, but is this how it goes? If you had 3 years of high school spanish, that alone doesn’t satisfy the FL requirement for UCLA, so you can take the placement test, and if you do well you test out of spanish and are done, or if you do “almost well enough” you just need to take one quarter of spanish. If you don’t do well on the test you might need to take 2 or at worst 3 quarters, but that probably doesn’t happen to many UCLA caliber students (right??)? And can you just sign up for a spanish class or are you required to test to make sure you sign up for the right lever?
Thanks!</p>