Placement Tests in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish

These placement tests are for students who studied Chinese, French, German, Italian  and/or Spanish in high school.

The language placement tests in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish are not timed. The student must use their Loyola student ID number for this exam. This seven-digit number is listed in your Loyola username and password technology email that was sent to you.

1. Visit the testing site
2. To create an account, fill in your name, seven digit Loyola student ID number and create a password.
3. Select the language of the placement exam that you would like to take and click the begin button.

Placement results will be discussed by the student's advisor on the second day of summer orientation. 

Chinese Placement Test Information 

Students who place out of CI104 and want to know if they can place into a level higher than CI201 must be interviewed by one of our Chinese professors. 

The Chinese online placement exam is created by Brigham Young University “to function as a proficiency test as well as an achievement test." It uses both simplified and traditional characters by design. “The lower level items have prompts in both types next to each other. As learners are pushed higher they are presented text prompts in one or the other form based on the idea that being an advanced learner means being able to handle texts wherever they are from.” For more information, please refer to the Chinese Placement Test FAQs.

The Chinese program at Loyola gives students the opportunity to choose either version of Chinese characters they would like to start with at the beginning level. As most Loyola students choose simplified characters, the Modern Languages department currently uses the simplified version in 100-level CI courses. However, the Modern Languages department exposes students to both forms in the 200- and 300-level courses so that students at the advanced level will be able to read texts from different places, such as mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.