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Placement Procedure German as a foreign language

A) Information about Placement Intensive Course March 25

Who must take an assessment?
  • All students and members of the Philipps-Universität who have not yet been classified by the Language Centre.
  • Applicants without no university account are not admitted to the intensive course.
How can I take the assessment?
  • The placement test for German as a foreign language is a C-Test.
  • You will also be asked to complete a survey.
How does the C-Test look like?
  • It contains 5 short texts with gaps that need to be filled so that the texts make sense.
  • You can try out this format by doing a short anonymous sample test.
When does the assessment take place? 17 January - 14 February 2025 

B) Link to C-Test and the survey

 You can try out this format by doing a short anonymous sample test.

Attention:   Course registration is only possible if the test   AND   the survey have been completed.

Please send the survey to:  

C) Information about Placement results

You can access your final placement test result   HERE.
Next to the score is a link to the semester's course offer. After the intensive course, you can continue learning German during the semester.
Registration for our summer semester courses will be possible from Wednesday  19.April 2025 at 6 pm.

If your test result is ambiguous, you will see a question mark ("?"). 
This means that we need to talk to you about a valid placement, and we will invite you to a video conference.
 You will get the precise date and the link for the conference via email. You can also visit me in my office.