• If possible, please take the Foreign Language Placement prior to your Pre-Orientation Academic Advising appointment but note that this is not required to be complete prior to your appointment. If testing dates are full prior to your advising appointment, please register for a time you are able to take the test this summer. If needed, you can also take the Foreign Language Placement Test in person during the academic year on one of our in-person testing dates.

 

• Each testing date will close and be removed from our registration site approximately one week before it takes place.  Once it has been removed, no additional students will be allowed to register for that date.
• Before completing the form below, make sure that you know your USC email address and USC ID.  (Your USC ID contains a letter followed by 8 numbers.  For current students at USC, this can be found on the back of your Carolina Card. )  Additionally, you will be asked to select your exam language and choose a testing date. 
• After registering for your exam, a confirmation email will be sent to your USC email address. 
  
  
• For exams on in-person testing dates 
  In-person exams are offered throughout the fall and spring semesters in Arabic, ASL, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
  Students should bring a copy of their confirmation email and a Photo ID to the lobby on the ground floor of the Humanities Classroom Bldg at their scheduled testing time.
  A reminder email of this appointment will be sent to your USC email address five days prior to your scheduled testing date. 
  
  
• For exams on remote testing dates 
  Remote exams are offered weekly during the summer in May, June and July in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
  Your exam will be available for you to access any time on your scheduled testing window.  (Your exam session will open at 7:00am on Monday morning and will close at 7:00pm on Wednesday night.)  Before taking the exam, you will be required to watch two videos with embedded questions to ensure that you understand our testing protocol.  Once you have answered all questions correctly, you will then have access to your exam.
  A reminder email with more information about your exam will also be sent to your USC email address five days prior to your exam date.   In this email, you will learn how to download and install Respondus and will be given the opportunity at that time to take a practice quiz to make sure that Respondus has been installed correctly on your computer.  

Please note the requirements for technology before registering for a remote exam.   All remote exams require the use of Respondus Monitor.  Students will only be allowed to take an exam remotely if they have access to the minimum technology required for Respondus Monitor including a Windows or Mac computer, a webcam with a microphone and a broadband internet connection.  Additionally, for some exams, students may be required to use a cell phone as a second camera.  If students are not able to take the exam remotely because of issues with technology, they are encouraged to either take the exam in one of USC's computer labs with Respondus software enabled or wait and take the exam on one of our in-person testing dates.