<p>According to the online placement test, I somehow qualify for an "Interview" to place out of the language requirement. I only took two years of high school Spanish (last time in junior year) and never even got to the AP level, and at this point I haven't spoken Spanish in more than a year. How rigorous are the confirmation placement test and the interview? I would like to place out of Spanish if realistically possible.</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack your thread, but how did you check your results on blackboard?</p>
<p>another apology for hijacking ==
how DO you check your results online? mine says “grade not available” - but i do recall there being an essay + interview on campus …for these languages, do we only know if we place out once we get there and ‘finish’ all components? french/spanish seem to have listening etc. online, but the one i took was only an RC/grammar type one…</p>
<p>My guess is that the “Interview” is probably to decide which course to put you in, not whether to place you out. Unless those were really intense high school courses, there’s no way they were the equivalent of 3 semesters of Spanish at Princeton. I never had an interview though, so I’m just guessing.</p>
<p>Are interviews individual? Cause there are 9 people with my time slot that is only 20min long</p>
<p>HYPSMIT: I went onto Blackboard, clicked on the placement test I had enrolled in, and on the side there was a “results” tab.</p>
<p>khgaus: I have no idea… every test is different. For the Spanish one, it says that if you get a “needs grading” result you should contact someone because it indicates a problem.</p>
<p>tralala: I’ll check later (not now because my Blackboard isn’t working… I guess it’s maintenance?), but I’m 95% sure that the result “Interview” is supposed to up only if your score is high enough to possibly satisfy the requirement. Otherwise you are automatically placed into SPA 101, 103, 105, or 108. You’re right, my high school courses were definitely not equivalent to three semesters of Princeton Spanish, but I found them easy and did very well in them, and I got the impression that I may have been able to self-study for the AP exam with a decent probability of a 4 or 5 (based on the proficiency of my friends who took the exam).</p>
<p>ChairmanGuo: For Spanish, it says that the confirmation test and interview will be administered at the same time for everyone, and that the whole process should take about an hour. I’m not sure how this works since I’m sure there are loads of people who placed out of Spanish…</p>
<p>Quoting from Blackboard:</p>
<p>(in the Preamble)
“If, when you return to this site to check your results, the message you get is Interview, this indicates that you may have satisfied the University’s language requirements, but you still need to take a “confirmation placement test” an to be interviewed to confirm that you have, in fact, placed out of the requirement. It shouldn’t take more than one hour to complete both the abbreviated test and the interview.”</p>
<p>(in the placement explanation section)
“Interview
According to the University’s regulations, it is mandatory to verify that all the students placing out in this test, are indeed proficient enough to satisfy the University’s foreign language requirement. The Interview / Confirmation Placement Test will be administered Monday, September 13 at 6:00PM in East Pyne 334.”</p>
<p>when do the results come out?</p>
<p>I received my results around noon today.</p>
<p>So from what I read on Blackboard…only students who place into Spanish 103 or satisify the university’s foreign language requirement altogether have to be interviewed, while those placing into intermediate and advanced Spanish do not? Am I reading this correctly?</p>
<p>i thought that the only people who have to be interviewed are the people who did well enough to place out of the foreign language requirement. the purpose of interviewing those people would be to see if they took the test honestly and are actually deserving of placing out of the requirement.</p>
<p>I saw this on the Placement Explanation page:</p>
<p>SPA 103
Please note: Before enrolling in this course, you will need to be interviewed by the Spanish Representative at during registration to confirm your placement.
Spanish 103 is an Intensive Beginner and Intermediate course followed by Spanish 107 to satisfy the University’s language requirement.
This course is offered only during Fall semester.
For more information please check Course Offerings .</p>
<p>@Scholar91 That’s what I read as well. However it doesn’t really make sense that SPA 103 placed students are interviewed while 105 & 107 students are not.</p>
<p>So I took the placement test and was placed into 103. It just said “103” - so OP probably really did pass out, which is amazing since I took 3 years of Spanish and was only able to skip one semester! I guess it might be since I’m a rising junior and I haven’t taken Spanish since HS junior year.</p>
<p>Blah, I was hoping I was good enough for 105 at least!</p>
<p>Oh, by the way, what were your actual scores? It says got a 62%.</p>
<p>@ ajibike You’re right…it doesn’t make sense, which is why I am confused. Do we assume that there is no confirmation test whatsoever for 101-108, and that the note about 103 is just a fluke? It makes more sense to me that everyone would have to confirm placement before enrolling in his or her respective course.</p>
<p>@ randombetch I don’t think that we can see our actual scores, just our placements. I saw a ~62 points possible on the results page. Is that what you are referring to?</p>
<p>Whoops, yup that was it.</p>