Beginning with the Summer STAR 2016 session, students who take language placement tests in French, German, Japanese,  Latin, Russian, Spanish, and Heritage Spanish will no longer be eligible to receive automatic credit by exam for their placement results. In order to receive departmental credit through placement, students must enroll in the course into which they place and successfully complete that course in order to earn their credit for placement. Departmental credit will be issued automatically for placement after grades post for the course into which students place. 

Students placing into the following levels will receive departmental credit accordingly:

Placement into Foreign Language (FL) 102: departmental credit for FL 101 upon successful completion of FL 102

Placement into FL 201: departmental credit for FL 101 and 102 upon successful completion of FL 201

Placement into FL 202: departmental credit for FL 101, 102, 201 upon successful completion of FL 202

Placement into FL 301/305: departmental credit for FL 101, 102, 201, 202 upon successful completion of FL 301/305

This change in how placement credit is issued will be implemented in the Summer STAR 2016 session. Students taking foreign language placement exams in the Spring 2016 term will still be eligible for automatic credit by exam based on their placement. There are five foreign language placement testing sessions throughout the Spring term for French, German, Latin, Russian, Spanish and Spanish for Heritage Speakers. For more information, please see the attached flyer.

For information on placement testing for other languages, please visit our placement page on the School of Languages and Cultures’ website:

https://www.cla.purdue.edu/slc/placement/index.html