<p>Does anyone know what the foreign language placement score means? For math it gave however many you got right out of the 40 questions but the language one (for spanish at least) is just a number. I got a 376 and placed into level 3?</p>
<p>The score means nothing, only the level. You can pass out of the 1st and 2nd levels through the online test (like you did). When you get to USC you can take the written test and pass out of the 3rd level to eliminate the language requirement completely. Also, depending on your major, it may or may not even have a language requirement so then the test is pretty useless if a language is not required unless you want to pursue it further.</p>
<p>Strange! Does the score have any numeric value at all, then? Is it out of 1000? 
Or is it an arbitrary number based off of each individual test?</p>
<p>The Spanish placement score seemed strange because last year, my D and some of her friends seemed to have scores all over the place, as well as length of test.
IIRC, we figured out that if you are doing well into the test and get enough correct answers, the test abruptly stops, and you have a score. If you are not getting a lot right, the test continues in order to test further. If you do ok, the test stops at a certain point. But if it looks like you are not going to place in level 3, it continues until the end and final score gets you your level 1 or 2.</p>
<p>This may be totally wrong, but it explained for instance why my D got a high 300 score after a 20 min or so test with x number of questions, and her friend got a 800 something score after her test lasted a lot longer 45 mins or so, with more number of questions. Both were placed in Level 3. </p>
<p>Again this is speculation, might be totally off, but it was weird.</p>
<p>is spanish semster 3 the highest level? I got a 592, but I did not feel like I did that well…</p>
<p>Yeah, the highest you can be placed into is Spanish 3. Once you get to USC, you can take the written test and place out of Spanish 3, and eliminate the language requirement altogether.</p>