Today, I did the language (German) placement test for college and it said I got like a 539 (and a minimum score of 426 tests you into German 1040), and, yeah, I'm utterly confused. What does it mean if someone "tests out" of a course? How does all of this crap work? I tried looking at the school's website, but I could get anything out of that, so I figured I'd ask you college-y folks. Thanks.
at my college we have to fulfill 8 different goals which means take a few credits in a bunch of different ares...some of the goals are ability to write, mathematical thought, sciences-w/lab discipline, and foreign language competency... if you test out a language class...it means either you fulfilled your language goal and can take a higher level language right away OR that you tested into a higher level language class so you only have take less language classes to fulfill your language goal... hope that made sense and helped peace
Thanks for your help, peoples. And, wow, WharfRat, your school is crazy. Where do you go? My friend woke up and I asked him what the school did about stuff, and apparently, with my score, I get to take German 2010, and if I get a C or above in it, I get credit for up to 6 hours of the prereq courses for that. Or something. I wasn't really listening. Once more, thanks a lot.
yah and I didnt even include the intensive classes we have to take...4 writing intensive, 2 global awareness, 1 environmental awareness, 1 race and gender awareness...not sure but there might be 1 more category...anyway I goto University of Mary Washington
Testing out means you don't have to take something, but scores and classes vary from school to school. That's why they have advisers.
Each school is different so you'll have to check with advisors there. I know that my freshman year of college, I'll probably test out of all my required Spanish and even be halfway on the way to a minor/ major with my 2 APs in Spanish. However, since I love Spanish, I'll just start off at the level my testing out ends at. It would probably be easy for you, depending on what your score means, to start off two classes away from a minor in German, which you should totally take advantage of. And sitting zen, WharfRat's requirements for college are pretty much the norm for all schools. Well, at least all the schools I've looked at although some smaller state schools might be different. That's the norm for just about every private school and big state schools.
ummm, if 2 APs gets you halfway to a minor, then you are going to a crazy-easy school. it isn't based on how high you get, it's how many credits you take that gets you a major/minor. for my minor, i need 21 hours, which translates to 7 normal classes. there are difficulty requirements too, but they are much easier to fulfill than the credit hour requirements
