Proficiency Exam FAQs

The comprehensive exam is an exam for graduate students and the proficiency exam is one for undergraduate students.

No, unlike a "chapter test" which is designed to bench mark which subjects a student mastered during the course of the semester, a proficiency exam is designed to determine your proficiency or ability in that subject. 

Morgan State University has a language placment policy which bases a student's placement on his/her high school experience.  The department is best able to determine placement after an examination of the high school transcripts.  If you have taken this language at Morgan, you have already brought us your transcripts.

Placement is the university's way to determine where a new student to foreign languages should begin.  A student who has successfully completed language courses in high school (beginning with the 9th grade) will normally place as follows:

0 or 1 year or level in high school (101)

1 or 2 years or levels in high school (102)

2 or 3 years or levels in high school (203)

3 or 4 years or levels in high school (204)

4 or more years or levels in high school (311 or 300>)

No.  It is not a requirement.  The Foreign Language Proficiency Exam is an exam that students may take in lieu of the language course in which they were placed.