Concordia College

INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is a world-wide, two year high school curriculum and examination program.  It is sponsored by a Swiss foundation (IBO) and administered through regional offices.  The IB diploma affords the student an advanced placement status in specific departments.  Higher level examinations with a minimum score of 4 will be accepted.

EXAMINATION FOR PLACEMENT, MODERN LANGUAGES

All students who have previously studied French, German or Spanish, but have never taken one of these language classes at Concordia are required to take the placement exam in that language.

The placement exam is computerized and takes 15 to 20 minutes.  Placement appears at the bottom of the printout where it states “This student placed at level ____.”

The exam assists in determining placement only.  If a student wishes to take a proficiency exam, developed and administered by each department individually, for the purpose of  testing out of the language requirement, they may make an appointment with the department to do so.

The placement scores are as follows:

                            SPANISH                                                GERMAN                               

score                                          course            score                                  course

0-246                                          111                0 -289                                111

247-334                                       112               290-388                              112

335-383                                       211               389-467                              211

384-438                                       212               468-530                              212

439 and above                             321 or 322     531 or above                       311

                            FRENCH                                                   LATIN

score                                          course                               

0-220                                            111                   Refer student to department for

221-300                                         112                   examination and placement

301-350                                         211

351-400                                         212

401 and above                               311

    Students cannot be placed higher than

    French 311.

If a student's placement score is borderline, the advisor should consider the time elapsed since last language course, time spent abroad in a non-English speaking country, number of years of high school language and the grades earned in those courses.  If possible, help the student schedule the language course so that a higher or lower level course is available at the same time.