<p>Has anybody ever taken the Elementary or Intermediate Chinese Placement Exam? Is it difficult?</p>
<p>You should prepare for the exam using the Integrated Chinese textbooks; the two books of level 1 are used in the first year classes, and the single volume of level 2 is used for the second year. The intermediate exam I took involved writing a set of characters based on their pinyin, making sentences using provided grammar patterns, and writing a paragraph of a certain length.</p>
<p>The exam was difficult for me because I hadn't taken a Chinese class in a long time, and I don't have any Chinese-speaking background. I'm sure it would be easier for people who don't have these disadvantages.</p>
<p>Thank you so much! Good to know beforehand what I need to study.</p>
<p>I would suggest that you don't study for the placement exam. It is a procedure to let the instructors stream you into the appropriate classes.</p>
<p>Seriously, I don't think it's going to do you any good to be placed into a class above your current standard. You're only going to make life difficult for yourself and probably get demoralized along the way.</p>
<p>Furthermore I don't think the placement test is based on your familiarity with the Integrated Chinese text.</p>
<p>Well, some people plan to take the placement exam to bypass the foreign language requirement for L&S (like myself =p). I think a lot of us already speaks Chinese (possibly as a primary language too) and we just lacked the practice of writting and reading for a long time. So yeah.</p>
<p>if you can't read or write, you go into 1A no matter how fluent you are. so you'll have to take a full year of language anyway.</p>
<p>The thing is.....if you need to study to bypass the language requirement, then you have not reached the requirements to bypass, and probably would not be able to bypass no matter how much you study, anyway.</p>
<p>Has anyone taken Chinese 2? What is some of the stuff you learn?</p>
<p>Also, has anyone taken the elementary Chinese placement test?</p>
<p>Hmm. Well I already bypassed the language requirement with AP Chinese, just don't want to do horrible on the placement exam and actually have an idea of what's going to be on the test.</p>
<p>if you passed the ap chinese exam, i dont think you'll have a problem with the placement exam >.></p>