Office of First-Year Programs
Ben Trapanick, Director, First-Year Programs
Dwight Hall Room 116
1-508-626-4905
E-mail: btrapanick@framingham.edu
Lauren O'Donoghue, Assistant Director, First-Year Programs
Orientation Coordinator
Dwight Hall Room 116
1-508-626-4637
E-mail: lodonoghue@framingham.edu
Preparing for the Modern Languages Department Placement Test: Tips To Help You Do Your Best
Students should review the fundamentals of the language they studied in high school prior to taking the language test. On this page we provide a sample question and answer to familiarize you with the format of the test. This test is available for assessment of French, Portuguese, and Spanish languages.
Students who score 50% (the equivalent of mastery of an Elementary I language course at the College) on this test will be granted a waiver of the General Education Goal 3 required course. They will still need to complete 32 courses to graduate, but can substitute an elective for the Goal 3 course no longer required of them.
Additionally, the placement test score will indicate which course level of language study will be appropriate for students opting to continue their study of another language at the University level.
For both of these reasons, it is important for students to do their best on this placement test; an accurate assessment of language proficiency will assure students of placement at the correct level of study.
Language/culture elements represented on the placement test include the following:
General vocabulary and expressions
Subject and object pronouns
Possessive and prepositional pronouns
Adjective agreement
Present, past and future indicative verb forms
The subjunctive verb mode
Reading comprehension
Geography and culture of representative countries
