<p>How difficult is Spanish placement test.</p>
<p>The program gives you different questions depending on how you do on previous ones, so it varies. It's meant to evaluate you, not to be a test with a score. Why ask that anyway? The point of a placement test is to know what class to take, not to earn a good score.</p>
<p>Because if you do well enough you can place out of required language classes.</p>
<p>You'll do fine.. if you get a 5 in AP you'll get placed into the 22-level (the 6th semester level language course meaning you'll only have to take that course and then be done with your language requirement.. unless you are an IR major.. in which case you have to go through 22, 121, and 122 the "Advanced language courses").. so if you don't do well on the placement.. you can fall back on your AP (if you did well)..</p>
<p>The placement exams themselve aren't very difficult, they include reading comprehension, vocab, and grammar questions. Pretty straightforward.. One thing that is absurdly annoying though is that the exam (not sure about spanish.. but def the case for french) is not a Tufts-created exam.. it was written by brigham young university.. the quality of the exams is so awful.. i swear there were some questions where none of the answers were correct (i pointed one out to a proctor and her response was that she agreed and just to pick the one that was "least awkward").. don't let this get you nervous though.. the test really is quite straightforward but watch out for the 1-2 questions that are bizarre..</p>
<p>kind of adding on to that.. although the placement exam is not written by Tufts (it might very well change for 2011 though!).. if you choose to take higher level courses.. there are mandatory diagnostic exams (again i know this is the case for french.. not so sure about spanish).. my prof told me it was a secondary measure to determine whether you belonged in the class.. but seeing as the entire class didn't do terribly well on it and no one was kicked out.. i assume its used to structure the course and focus points (grammar-wise) more than to determine whether you belong or not..</p>