Spanish Placement Exam

<p>I am an incoming freshman next year to UMich and I will be taking the spanish placement exam soon. What exactly will be tested on this exam and how hard is it? Also, how hard is it to place into the final semester of spanish or even potentially out of spanish completely?</p>

<p>It really depends on your performance at the exam. Did you take AP Spanish?
Make sure you have a couple web browsers with flash plugin installed on your computer. My D found a problem in the beginning of the test and wasted 3 questions to find out, then switched to a different browser to continue. Then she rushed through the test trying to overcome the time lost. At the end, she finished the test far ahead of the time allowed but did not think it though for each question. My suggestion is to have some way to track the time and progress (of the 99 question).</p>

<p>It’s pretty easy. I didn’t take Spanish last year, and I never took an AP Spanish class. I tested out of the LSA foreign language requirement. Don’t sweat it.</p>

<p>I didn’t take ap spanish unfortunately. I actually also didn’t take spanish my senior year, just freshman to junior years. Is it a time test and if so, how much time do we have for the 99 questions?</p>

<p>The test is 50 minutes long. The first half you listen to audio files and respond to questions. The second half you read sentences where you will need to determine what needs to be added or if the sentence is correct. Also in the second half, you will have to answer a few questions. All of the questions on the test are multiple choice. If you are better at reading and writing Spanish than listening to or speaking Spanish , I would strongly advise you to not waste much time time on the verbal portion of the test. I wasted so much time replaying the audio files trying to pick up on as many words as I could. Once I got to the Spanish sentences, I started to breeze through it. Unfortunately, I was unable to complete all 99 questions because of the lost time in the listening section. </p>

<p>Thanks! Is the test designed for people to finish because 99 questions in 50 minutes seems like a lot? Also, what would you say is an estimate of a score that I should receive to pass out of the 3rd or 4th semester?</p>

<p>FYI, when my son tried to take the test using Internet Explorer, there was no “play” button (needed for listening portion), but it appeared when he switched to Chrome. kingkumar: he finished 12 minutes early, so I don’t know that there are too may questions. He passed out the of the language requirement (he had 4 years of high school Spanish).</p>

How many credits does the highest level on the online Spanish placement test award you?

I am not positive, but I don’t believe the Spanish placement test gives you any credit in LSA. It can allow you to place out of the foreign language requirement (or alternatively one year of the two year requirement).

@Nsf1897 You shouls start a new thread instead of digging up all the old threads.

You get no credits…you just place out of the need to use credits toward meeting the language requirement. You can then use for more electives…etc…

@UofMDAD That is not true. You can actually get credits from the Spanish placement exam even without AP Spanish. My D got 5 in AP Spanish and she got 4 credits from the AP score and another 4 from the placement exam. She goes to CoE and there is no world language requirement. She just got the credit for fulfilling humanities/electives only. It actually shows on unofficial transcript where those credits coming from and what they are for.

LSA seems to be different. My rising sophomore son passed out of Spanish but did not get any credit.

https://www.lsa.umich.edu/students/academicsrequirements/academicpolicies/testcreditapclepibaleveletc/retroactivelanguagecredits

In the link, looks like LSA students may receive retro credit for certain languages (for whatever reason) only.

I know a lot of the placement tests are online, but where do I find them and when do we take them?

@Ne1212 I think Math and English placement tests are online. Chemistry and foreign languages are on the first day of orientation.
@wayneandgarth Spanish is not on the retro credit list. CoE has no separate AP credit policy on world language. Basically, they just follow LSA’s policy and the credits are counted as LSA credits (which is required by CoE anyway).

Credits given from the placement exam are listed as “Credit By Exam (CBE)” on the transcript.
https://www.lsa.umich.edu/students/academicsrequirements/academicpolicies/testcreditapclepibaleveletc/creditbyexaminationcbe_ci