<p>I'm planning to take the french placement test. How hard is it? Is it true that the whole test is taken on a computer? What format is the test in?</p>
<p>I took Spanish I through IV (AP) and no AP Exam (because my school added a Spanish V at the end of my junior year, and recommended that we take it before the AP Exam, but I ended up taking another science class instead senior year), and did well, I was wondering about the difficulty of the placement test.</p>
<p>For spanish, I believe it's entirely computer-based and multiple choice. In terms of how hard it is, I guess I'm going to sound foolishly obvious when I say it depends on how good you are at the language. I know someone who took four years of spanish and didn't place out of a single level, someone who took 4 years of french and ended up in just Elementary French II (skipped only one semester), and someone who's fluent in spanish (got a 5 on the AP spanish exam) and only placed into third semester (she took the placement test because she didn't send Columbia her scores). </p>
<p>On the flip side, I know someone who allegedly knows almost no spanish at all and placed into fourth semester, and someone who only had two years of spanish and placed out of the langauge requirement entirely. I think that's enough anecdotal evidence to show that you really can't judge your performance or difficulty of the test on other people.</p>
<p>Do you happen to know if there are any speaking or listening parts?</p>
<p>To become entirely exempt, do you take a listening/speaking part after the multiple-choice exam?</p>
<p>anyone know anything about the french exam? TIA</p>
<p>what topics are you guys reviewing for the french placement exam? vocab? grammar? reading comprehension?</p>
<p>mostly vocab and grammar for me. i still don't know all the uses of the subjunctive yet...and i'm horrible in listening comprehension</p>