<p>I searched this up and I'm still a little confused on the language placement exams.</p>
<p>So I'm an international OOS student. I've taken Korean AND French at the high school level. Korean in 9th grade and French in 10 & 11th grade. Frankly, I don't know anything in both languages. (I had bad teachers and I was a bad student, two things that do not go well together)</p>
<p>Now I'm required to take an exam.
So,
1) Which exam am I supposed to take?
2) How does it exactly affect me? If I take the Korean exam, do I have to stick with it? I can't go on learning Russian or anything else?
3) Does being an international automatically exempt me from this exam or no?</p>
<p>You have to take the placement exam for the language you took in high school - I’m going to take a wild guess and say they’ll have you take the French one since that was your most recent language. You don’t have to stick with the language you took in high school (i.e. you can just take the placement exam and then forget about it and sign up for Russian 101, etc). Hopefully someone will correct me if I’m blatantly wrong about any of this, but I think that’s the protocol…</p>
<p>You only take the exam if you want to take that language… If you take the exam, you DON’T have to take the language… I took a Latin placement exam when I got in and decided against it (great decision). You only take the placement exam if you want to get out of taking lower level classes (depending on where you place). </p>
<p>If you want to try a new language that has a placement exam, you have to take the placement exam… and you will probably be placed in 101. However there are many languages that don’t require placement exams, and for those you can register immediately. If I’m not mistaken, I think French, German, Spanish and Latin are the only language classes with placement tests. </p>
<p>If you’re just looking to get your language requirement out of the way, I would recommend taking and easy language… I took Portuguese and it was very easy and the professors were great. Pretty much everyone in the class was just looking to clear their foreign language requirements with as little pain as possible… and it was a lot of fun. You can also take Italian, Russian, Japanese, Arabic and Mandarin without taking placement exams. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Correction: jambaby is right… you have to take the placement exam for the language you took in high school… but it really doesn’t matter if you don’t want to take the language. So you should take the French exam, see where you place and decide what you want to take.</p>
<p>You’re supposed to take the placement exam regardless of whether you want to study that language later. It makes no sense, but there you go.
You are not exempt as an international.
You can choose any language you want, later. You’ll have to start from 101 though.</p>
<p>I just wanted to add that if you do take the French exam and decide to take French, you HAVE to sign up for the level you place into if you don’t get special permission. So if you wanted to continue with French, I would suggest taking the placement exam now and if you think you placed too high or low, contact the French dept and get it worked out now rather than wait until right before or after CTOPS. Or like everybody else has said, you can just take a whole new language!</p>
<p>I couldn’t register for the Spanish class I wanted because I placed out of it, so I just decided to take Arabic!</p>
<p>FYI - my son took the placement exam, was placed in 203, but his AP score put him in 204 and he was able to sign up for 204.</p>