<p>As we know, newly admitted students need to take a bunch of placement exams to enroll in classes. I have a few questions about placement exams. </p>
<p>1: I am taking a transferrable calculus 2 class at a community college. Do I still need to take the pre-calculus placement exam? I called and asked the testing office, but the speaker seemed very unsure...</p>
<p>2: To take chinese 1A as a foreign langauge, are you required to take the chinese placement exam? I heard there is a way around it.</p>
<p>Lastly, is it a good idea to take chinese as a foreign langauge in college? I'm Vietnamese with no background in Chinese whatsoever, but I really want to learn it for personal reasons (it might be useful in engineering =]). I'm afraid Chinese would be hard and would jeopardize my GPA/make me struggle. I could always study French and try to pass that exam... I hated it for three years, and I basically forgot most of it.</p>
<p>Feel free to use this thread for any questions about placement exams.</p>
<p>I'm also Vietnamese but want to study Japanese just for the fun of it, but I'm worried about my GPA dropping because of the difficulty despite my 3 years of Spanish I'd rather take Japanese =</p>
<p>And I've never heard of a way around the placement tests...I thought you had to take them for all language courses.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure Japanese is easy to learn. I know it's a completely new language, but Japanese and Korean were branched off of Chinese. According to the history (little fuzzy), Japanese and Korean are basically simplified versions of Chinese. Anyway, I think we have to just take that placement test. Good luck to us. We will understand nothing! haha.</p>
<p>Truthfully, I want to learn all the asian languages =. This conflicts with my dreams to be an engineer though so it really sucks, haha.</p>
<p>lol yeah this will be fun xD My mom said to take Vietnamese but why would I pay to take Vietnamese when I'd could just listen to my family talk >_></p>