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Placement tests offer students opportunity for course credits By Kasie Byers Night News Editor Numerous placement exams are offered at Texas A&M throughout the summer, allowing students to receive credit for a course without actually taking it. At A&M their are three cate gories of placement exams, de partmental exams or credit by exam. Institutional CLEP exams and modern and classical lan guages exams. The CLEP and departmental exams are administered by Mea surement and Research Services located in 001 History Building. Departmental exams allow students to place out of a specific course offered at the University. Departmental exams offered this summer include B AN A 207, BIOL 113 and ENGL 104. Institutional CLEP exams cover courses offered at most universities and colleges. CLEP exams include history 101, soci ology 205 and psychology 107. Modern and classical lan guages exams are specific to courses offered in the Depart ment of Modern and Classical Languages such as French, Spanish and German. Departmental and Clep ex ams can be taken during one of 12 New Student Conferences held throughout the summer. Aaron Wallace, a student worker with the Measurement and Research Services office and a junior business analysis major, said students wishing to take a placement exam just need to show up at the appropriate time and place to take an exam. “During the summer stu dents can come by our (Mea surement and Research Ser vices) office to be placed on a list, but they are not required to," Wallace said. "They can just show up to take the exam." Wallace said all exams are billed to the students fee statement. The modern and classical languages placement exams are handled within the department. Over the past five years, this place ment system has saved the University 6,000 seats in language courses and $720,000.” — Dr. Steven Oberhelman head of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages Dr. Steven Oberhelman, head of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, said students who are enrolled in a language course and have pre vious high-school course expe rience, college course experi ence or cultural experience with that language are required to take a placement exam. "We require students who have previous experience with a language to take an exam to ensure that people who are overqualified for a beginner language course aren't need lessly wasting their time and money," Oberhelman said. These exams are designed to reflect the test-takers proficien cy level and determine what course within that language the student needs to take. The language placement ex ams are offered the first two days of the summer session, and results of the exam are available the next morning at the Measurement and Research Services office. Oberhelman said the results of these exams are available be fore class add/drop dates so students can drop courses be low their proficiency level and register in classes at their ap propriate level. "This has been a University approved policy for six years," he said. "In five years of this system, no complaint by stu dent or faculty member has been made over placement." Many sections of language courses are reserved for place ment students who need to reg ister into a different language class after receiving results of their placement test. Oberhelman said this system has saved the University and students a significant amount of money over the years. "Over the past five years, this placement system has saved the University 6,000 seats in lan guage courses and $720,000," he said. 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