Only current UW students may take the proficiency test.

International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) exams in Khmer are not currently counted among subjects with applicability towards UW graduation requirements, so cannot be used for placement into classes. For more information, please see the IB Policy Overview page and AP Policy Overview page on the UW Office of Admissions site.

These assessments should be taken as early as possible after beginning your studies at UW. These assessments cannot be taken more than twice in a twelve month period. Therefore, students need to take these before their senior year so that they have time to take a full academic year of language courses to satisfy the requirement if they are unable to satisfy the requirement through the proficiency tests.

No. These exams are purely to either place students into the correct class or to fulfil graduation requirements for language proficiency. First-year (elementary) or second-year (intermediate) foreign-language credit is not granted either by examination or by course completion in a student’s native language. “Native language” is defined as the language, or one of the languages, spoken in the student’s home during the first six years of their life and in which they received instruction through the seventh grade.

Students who misrepresent the extent of their background so as to gain entrance to a course at the elementary or intermediate level may be dropped from the rolls of that course.