{"id":11,"date":"2014-08-21T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/worldlang\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:10:07","slug":"credit-for-prior-experience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/credit-for-prior-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit for prior experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students with previous language learning experience may be eligible to receive college credit through a challenge exam that we use to place students into the appropriate level.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For French or Spanish, a prospective student will take a challenge exam in two parts: an online assessment (reading comprehension and writing), followed by a brief oral interview (listening\/speaking). For Latin, the exam is written only, with no oral component.<\/li>\n<li>Students who pass will be placed into the language learning sequence here at GCC. Once a student successfully completes that semester (C or better), confirming their sustained performance as predicted by the challenge exam, s\/he would receive credit for that class and the preceding semester(s).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>A note on the financial incentives:<\/strong> If a student is granted 4 credits for the equivalent of 101, for example, s\/he would save the cost of tuition (exclusive of fees) for a 4-credit class. (A testing fee is added to the semester bill at the time of the test; a per-credit fee may apply when the credits are awarded.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>*** This program is optional: no exam is required for World Language classes ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avantassessment.com\/tests\/stamp\/4s\">Take a practice test<\/a><\/strong>, then\u00a0contact our department to make an appointment for an exam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students with previous language learning experience may be eligible to receive college credit through a challenge exam that we use to place students into the appropriate level. For French or Spanish, a prospective student will take a challenge exam in two parts: an online assessment (reading comprehension and writing), followed by a brief oral interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcc.mass.edu\/world-languages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}