<p>If you've taken two years of a language in high school, how likely is it that you will be able to place out of the intro course and go into the second level? Are colleges normally picky with these tests or generally if you have some knowledge of the language would you be able to test into the higher levels?</p>
<p>I placed out of the entire first year of college Spanish (out of two full years worth offered) with just two years of HS Spanish under my belt.</p>
<p>my language test proctor said every 2 years of high school FL is equivalent to about 1 year of college FL.</p>
<p>I took 5 years of spanish and was placed into 3rd year spanish and was really surprised so she told me this.</p>
<p>It might vary a lot by college.</p>
<p>At my college most introductory and many intermediate languages have 8-9 hours of contact time each week (lecture plus drills), and we are expected to devote an additional hour each day outside of class to the study of the language.</p>
<p>I heard that students typically need at least 3 years of the language in high school to place out of the first-year courses here.</p>
<p>It depends on both the college and the program you took in high school.</p>
<p>I took 4 years of Japanese in high school, and am still struggling to keep up with level 2 here.</p>
<p>I've heard of kids purposely bombing the online foreign language placement tests so they get placed into the Intro. level.</p>
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I took 5 years of spanish and was placed into 3rd year spanish and was really surprised so she told me this.
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Is the 3rd year spanish equivalent to the 5th year in high school? How it works at my school is that one level of a language is covered in a semester, so 4 years of a language in high school would be equivalent to 2 years in college.</p>