Information About 16-Credit Exam

Most students with previous experience in Spanish and Portuguese are eligible to take an exam that will cover Spanish 105, 106, 206, 111R and 112R or Portuguese 101, 102, 201, 211R, and 212R. In order to take this exam students must be enrolled in a Spanish or Portuguese class. Most Portuguese returned missionaries take Portuguese 315. Spanish-speaking returned missionaries will take Spanish 321.   

Students with good high-school experience and state-side Spanish-speaking missions generally take 205 or 206 and will test out of 105 and 106, for eight total credits.  Students coming from H.S. must test out during their first Spanish/Portuguese class at BYU.  The placement exam must be taken in order to determine which class this group of students should enroll in (1131 JFSB). Some state-side missionaries may also test out of 111R and 112R for 12 total credits. Native speakers of Spanish and Portuguese cannot take the 16-credit exam. They are able to take an exam in English.  Please contact Diane Strong-Krause, 422-3970, for information only on the English course and exam.

The 16-credit exam must be taken during the first Spanish or Portuguese class after mission the experience.  If a students misses the scheduled time for the exam he/she will have to take the paper exam.

If a student has taken an exam at another university or through our Off-Campus Testing Office and the credits were transferred to BYU he/she will not be allowed to take the 16-credit exam. This does not apply to AP credit.

Forms will be distributed by your instructor of Span./Port. 315 and 321. All other students will pick them up from the Department office, 3190 JFSB. They will be available May 16th.  Students must pay the non-refundable fee of $20.00 in the Cashier's Office, 155 ASB, then take the form to 3190 JFSB and enter his/her name onto the computer by May 29, 2007.

You can sign up for an exam time beginning Wednesday, 30 May, in B-153 JFSB.

There will be no exceptions.  It is the student's responsibility to schedule a time from among the days indicated for your class.  Failure to take the exam on the days scheduled for the class disqualifies the student from taking the exam on the computer.  Students will then have to take a paper-and-pencil version of the exam scheduled through the department.