French & Spanish Placement Exam

1. The exam may be taken only once per semester. Taking the exam more than once, without the express permission of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, causes your results to be invalid. Please contact Andrea Javel at javel@bc.edu, should you feel that your results do not accurately reflect your level, for permission to take the test a second time.
2. The purpose of this test is to place you in the proper level thus ensuring that you will not be too challenged nor too frustrated. Therefore, do not consult any material (dictionaries, books, class notes, friends, etc.) when taking this test as it would skew your results and place you in a class that would be too difficult for you.
3. This is a placement test. Please consult your school (A & S or CSOM) for A.P. or SAT II scores needed to demonstrate proficiency in French or Spanish.
4. For questions dealing with placement in Italian, please contact Brian O'Connor at  oconnobc@bc.edu.
5. For all other languages, please contact the appropriate department or your dean.
6. After taking the placement exam in French or Spanish, if you still have questions, please consult the information at the bottom of this page.

1. When asked for a Password, type: eagles1 (All letters are lower case. NOTE: This is not your personal password nor PIN. You actually type "eagles1".)
2. When prompted, enter your personal data - you must know and enter your BC ID Number to take the test.
3. Take the test without any outside help (see point #2 above).
4. When finished, follow on-screen instructions to get your score and placement. Print this page, you will need to reference it in the future.

To avoid technical problems, please read this:

1. Clicking outside the exam window will interrupt the exam. If the window is still available the exam can be continued, otherwise it will need to be restarted.
2. At peak loads the server gets overloaded and the exam may start with only part of the page present. For example the choices (A, B, C, D) may be visible, but no question is shown. The exam should be aborted by closing the window and trying again--at a later time if possible.
3. The program uses pop-up windows for the exam and to send the report emails. You should turn off pop-up blocking browser features or add-on software. Alternately, if the software or browser has settings to allow pop-up windows for certain domains, adding the domain webcape.byu.edu to the list will do the trick.
4. This online exam does not work with AOL or the AOL browser.
5. If you are experiencing difficulty, there is a help page that may resolve your problems.

1. Sign up for the suggested class that correlates to your score.
2. If you scored above 500 in Spanish, please contact either Professor Kathy Lee at  leekn@bc.edu or Professor Christopher Wood at woodcg@bc.edu for further information.
3. If you have further questions, please contact the Director of Language Studies, Jeff Flagg at james.flagg.1@bc.edu or the appropriate coordinator via email:

• Elementary Spanish I and II (RL015, RL016), Elementary Spanish Practicum I and II (RL017, RL018), Intensive Elementary Spanish for Proficiency (RL041): Debbie Rusch at rusch@bc.edu
  
• Intermediate Spanish I and II (RL115, RL116), Intensive Intermediate Spanish for Proficiency (RL181), and Adelante I and II (RL153, RL154): Catherine Wood Lange at woodcb@bc.edu or Christopher LaFond at lafond@bc.edu
  
• Spanish CCR I and II (RL215, RL216), Naturalmente I (RL391): Kathy Lee at leekn@bc.edu or Christopher Wood at woodcg@bc.edu
  
• Elementary French I and II (RL009, RL010), Elementary French Practicum I and II (RL011, RL012), and Intermediate French I and II (RL109, RL110) Intermediate French Practicum I and II (RL013, RL014): Andrea Javel at javel@bc.edu
  
• French CCR I and II (RL209, RL210), French CCR Practicum I and II (RL217, RL218), Intensive French for Oral Proficiency I (RL042), and Intensive Intermediate French for Proficiency (RL182): Jeff Flagg at james.flagg.1@bc.edu