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. "For students, placing out
of one year of a language is $85
compared to the tuition and fees
required for that course, not to
mention the time saved toward
their degree."
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