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Placement procedure

Who must take a placement test?

• If you have never learned any Spanish, you clearly do not have to take a placement test. Your only booking option then is an A1.1 course or a course A1 complete.
• If you have learned some Spanish in the past, a placement test is mandatory. The result will indicate at which level you can continue at the Language Center.
• Exception: Students who have successfully completed a Spanish course at the Language Center in the previous semester and have gained a grade of 8 (for A2 complete: 10) or higher can book a class on the next level without an additional test (follow-up registration). However, this is limited to a certain period of time, as specified in the email notifications sent out to those eligible for follow-up registration.

What does the placement test for Spanish look like?

The placement test for Spanish consists of an online- C-test and an optional oral test in the form of a videoconference.

1. Online C-test (cloze test)

A C-test consists of a set of multiple cloze texts in which the second half of every other word is missing starting from the second sentence. You will try to complete the gaps so that the text makes sense. This can be done by combining your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar as well as by “intelligent guessing”. If you are interested in the design of the test, you can take 5-minute trial test anonymously.

Please note: The result of the online C-test will be shown directly after the test, but this is not the final placement result.

Winter Semester 2024/25

Online from Monday, 9 September 2024

ATTENTION: Please use only letters of the German alphabet for entering your personal data. Don’t use Umlauts ('Ä/ä', 'Ü/ü', 'Ö/ö') and special letters such as 'ß' and foreign language letters and accents. 

Please note the following: this placement test is not for the Philology students (Teaching Spanish, B.A. RomKult, etc.). Information about this can be found at: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb10/romanistik/studium/erstsemester

• Go to part 1
• Go to part 1 for MarSkills

2. Oral Test

If the test result differs greatly from your own expectations, or you are not comfortable with the test format, you can arrange a video conference interview with the coordinator of the Spanish department. During the interview, your communicative competence will be tested using various everyday topics. Duration of the oral test: approx. 15 minutes.

Here the link for the videoconference room.

The dates available for the oral test are:

Registration for the video conference room here:
https://ilias.uni-marburg.de/goto.php?target=crs_2646984&client_id=UNIMR

Placement results:

You will be told your final placement result (i.e. both parts combined) after the oral test. You can then also access your result online (Wednesday, 16 April 2024, 5 p.m.).

If the online result shows a "?" your oral test result is still missing. In that case please contact Dr. Edmund Voges.

Intensive Course - Spring 2025

If you have not attended an A1.1 course in the winter semester 2024/25 at the Language Center:

If you have not attended an A1.1 course in the winter semester 2024/25 at the Language Center, you will need to take part in a placement test. Please contact the coordinator of Spanish, Dr. Edmund Voges. With a matching test result, you will receive a password for the registration.

Participants from the winter semester 2024/25:

As a participant of an A1.1 class in the winter semester 2024/25 you don't need a new placement test if you successfully completed the course with 8 points or higher. You will automatically receive a password for the registration by e-mail before the registration starts.