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Placement Procedure for the German as a Foreign Language Semester Course

A) Information on placement Sommer Semester 25


Who has to take a placement test?
  • All students and members of the Philipps-Universität who have not yet been placed by the Language Centre's placement test.
Who does not need to take a placement test?
  • All 0-beginners: all those with no previous knowledge.
  • Course continuators.
What is the placement procedure?    

1. The placement procedure must be completed using the learning platform ILIAS.
1. First, fill out a survey for your learning biography.
2. Second, you will receive a link to a C-Test.
3. Please complete the C-Test.   
How do I take the assessment?    

See all Links under B)

1. You can take a sample test in advance on this site.
2. Please log in to ILIAS using your student or staff account.
3. You click on the link to the survey.
4. You can access the C-Test link after completing the survey. There are five short test sections where you must fill in the words to make the texts coherent.
Time for Placement

B) Access to C - Test and survey

You will find a short anonymous sample C test here. You have to log in to the ILIAS learning platform to take part in the survey.

The placement links are currently offline. The placement period for the summer semester will begin on March 10.

Attention: Please make sure you complete both the test and the survey, otherwise your assessment will not be valid.

Attention: Applicants without  university affiliation will get the survey from:  

C) Information on the classification result

Once the survey has been analysed, you can access your final ranking from 22 April.   HERE.
Next to the score is a link to the course offer for the semester. The registration for our summer semester courses will be possible from Wednesday 23rd of April 2025 at 6 pm.  Please choose the course you would like to attend.

If your result is not clear, you will see "?"
This means that your categorisation has not yet been fully evaluated or we would like to speak to you so that we can categorise you correctly. Please call us or come directly to our DaF-office (Biegenstraße 12/room 010)

D) Applicants without university affiliation

If you are not a member of Philipps-Universität, you will initially receive the initial result "E" (for “external”). 
You can only register with a registration form. If there are no available places left, you will not be shown a final test result.

For any questions concerning your placement test results and course registration options, please contact the DaF-Team: