CLEP World Languages

LOTS of college credit from 1 short exam.

CLEP Exams for Languages

When you take a language exam through CLEP, you take 1 exam. Your score determines your level of proficiency and the suggested credit award. In other words, when you take the French Language exam, if you score between 50-58 points you’ll receive 6 college credits. If you score 59 or higher, you’ll receive 9 college credits.

There are some colleges that use their own score numbers and different, sometimes it is actually MORE than on the recommendation chart. My local community college, for example, awards 12 college credits for Level 2 Proficiency!

Exam Title	Credit-Granting Score	College Credits
French Language Level 1 Proficiency	50	6
French Language Level 2 Proficiency	59	9
German Language Level 1 Proficiency	50	6
German Language Level 2 Proficiency	60	9
Spanish Language Level 1 Proficiency	50	6
Spanish Language Level 2 Proficiency	63	9
Spanish with Writing Level 1 Proficiency	50	6
Spanish with Writing Level 2 Proficiency	65	12

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FRENCH

The exam contains approximately 121 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.

• Section I (15%) Listening
• Section II (25%) Listening
• Section III (60%) Reading

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GERMAN

The exam contains approximately 120 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.

• Section I & II (40%) Listening
• Section III (60%) Reading

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SPANISH LANGUAGE

The exam contains approximately 121 questions to be answered in 90 minutes.

• Section I (15%) Listening
• Section II (25%) Listening
• Section III (60%) Reading

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SPANISH WITH WRITING

The exam contains 100 multiple-choice questions to be answered in approximately 80 minutes and two writing tasks to be written in 30 minutes, for a total of approximately 110 minutes testing time.

• Section I (10%) Listening
• Section II (20%) Listening
• Section III (45%) Reading
• Section IV (25%) Writing

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