Advance with Spanish SAVE TIME AND MONEY: TRANSLATE YOUR LANGUAGE SKILLS INTO COLLEGE CREDIT.

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Your knowledge of Spanish can earn you college credit! You may have learned at home to speak, read, and write fluently in Spanish. You may have grown up hearing Spanish and learned the language formally at school. You may have learned Spanish for the first time in a classroom setting.

However you’ve learned Spanish, your language skills can earn you college credits.

What is the CLEP® Spanish Language examination? The CLEP Spanish Language exam measures your ability to understand written and spoken Spanish. The exam, administered on computer, is approximately 90 minutes long and consists of two listening sections and one reading section. The questions require you to demonstrate your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, as well as your ability to comprehend written and spoken Spanish.

There are 2,900 colleges and universities that grant credit for successful CLEP scores. Most award 6 or more credits for the CLEP Spanish Language exam, depending on the score earned. The exam is scored on a scale of 20–80. The American Council on Education recommends that colleges grant 6 credits for scores of 50–62 and 9 credits for scores of 63 and above.

CLEP Benefits:§ Save time.

§ Save money.

§ Move closer to graduation.

§ Fulfill your world language requirement.

§ Receive credit.

Prepare to succeed with CLEP Spanish Familiarize yourself thoroughly with the contents of at least one Spanish textbook used in courses during the first two years of college Spanish. In addition to studying basic vocabulary, you should understand and be able to apply the grammatical principles that make up the language.

To improve your reading comprehension, read passages from textbooks, short magazine and newspaper articles, and other printed or online material.

To improve your listening comprehension, seek opportunities to hear the language spoken by native speakers and to converse with native speakers: Join organizations with Spanish-speaking members, listen to Spanish-language radio and television broadcasts, and attend Spanish movies.

Try the sample test questions, and read the exam description provided in the CLEP Official Study Guide. The study guide isavailable from the CLEP website or in bookstores. View the CLEP Testing Platform Tutorial on the CLEP website to get familiar with the computer format.

CLEP OFFERS 33 EXAMINATIONS IN INTRODUCTORY COLLEGE-LEVEL SUBJECTS.

§ Composition and Literature § History and Social Sciences

§ World Languages § Science and Mathematics

§ Business

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