Language Placement

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<p>Just a quick question, are there any fees for taking these exams?</p>

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<p>Unless they’ve changed it, I don’t think so. You do often need to sign up for them in advance though. Unless they’ve changed it.</p>

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<p>Great, thanks! :)</p>

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<p>when, where, and how can I sign up to take these placement exams?</p>

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<p>Really? I don’t recall seeing any sort of sign up for my Hindi placement test. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough.</p>

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<p>For Asian languages: [Language</a> Placement and Testing - Department of Asian Studies](<a href=“http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/programs/placement]Language”>http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/programs/placement)</p>

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<p>And I quote from that very page:</p>

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<p>Although they added:
Contact Information: It is recommended that e-mail be used to contact the appropriate faculty member to set up an appointment for testing in the languages listed below.</p>

<p>So, I guess it’s your call. All I remember was they would have enough space for everyone for a “big” test like this in the beginning of the year, and signing up would make sure that they know you would be there. So, it doesn’t hurt. If you don’t show up for the test, you wouldn’t be penalized or anything either.</p>

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<p>I wrote to the Hindi professor back in April, implicitly stating my interest in the placement test so I guess it wouldn’t have mattered either way. But thanks for that. :)</p>

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<p>I cannot make it to the original placement date, and therefore must take the Make-up exam on the 30th instead. But I believe classes will already have started by then. Will I still be able to enroll in a tested language class for THIS semester?</p>

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<p>It’ll be better if you can take an earlier test. Also, contact the professors to ask about this or maybe someone here knows :)</p>

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<p>f4lcon, Classes will have started by the 30th. I’d say that if you have an idea of where you might be placed, sign up for the course that looks most interesting to you and go to that course on the first days of class, even though you haven’t taken the exam. This way, you’ll have the syllabus and won’t have missed a class. Or, you could wait to sign up and go to a couple of different courses in the first few days of classes, since getting the syllabus on the first day of class is obviously beneficial. People drop classes all the time, so this isn’t weird or anything. You might want to email the professor(s) of the course(s) you’re interested in, just so you don’t waste your time attending the first session of a class that will be either terribly easy or way too hard for you.</p>

<p>Hope this helps.</p>

<p>Oh, and you’ll have approximately three weeks after classes start to technically “add” another class on Student Center/through the registrar (though waiting three weeks into classes to add another course isn’t advisable).</p>

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<p>Is there any disadvantage to you if you don’t do well on these language placement tests (or any placement tests, for that matter), other than the obvious placement into a lower level class? I’m an engineer, and I’m debating taking the French CASE exam, but due to the fact that I don’t have to take a foreign language, I don’t want a bad grade showing up on my transcript or anything like that.</p>

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<p>Hah, no, not at all. The grades you get for placement exams aren’t normal grades–if I recall from the French exam, it’s something like Q-, Q, Q+, Q++, and so on. They will not go on your transcript.</p>

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<p>Thanks indigo! I will definitely try contact the professor.</p>

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<p>Does anyone know how long the French CASE exam is? I only have an hour and a half before a required engineering orientation event which I can’t miss.</p>

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<p>kind of on the same note…
if you take the French CASE online and sign up for the class it recommends, do you still need to take the French placement exam in the beginning of the year?</p>

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<p>igniterain, an hour and a half should be enough time, yes.</p>

<p>zvoncek, from my experience, the online exam was the LP exam, and if one is ineligible for that (AP credit of 4 or 5, ANY IB credit, learning the language in a non-academic setting…), the CASE exam (which is not taken online) is required. If you are able to take the online exam, you do not need to take the in-person exam–you can just use your score and enroll in an appropriate course.</p>