Indonesian proficiency and placement exams are offered for registered students at UW. Students with no previous exposure to the Indonesian language are able to register for Indonesian 101 where offered via MyPlan or MyUW at any time. For full information, please see this page.

The Asian Languages & Literature department does not offer placement or proficiency exams to students outside of UW (e.g., high school students seeking admission, prospective students, extension students,etc.), nor does it offer testing in languages or dialects not currently taught in the department. UW Students looking to take a proficiency test for a language or dialect not taught by the Asian Languages & Literature department should contact the UW Language Learning Center (LLC).

International Baccalaureate (IB) and Advanced Placement (AP) exams in Indonesian 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.

Students who have an existing background in Indonesian and wish to take classes in Indonesian at UW Seattle should contact Professor Desiana Pauli Sandjaja at sandjaja@uw.edu with their name, UW Seattle student ID number, and confirmation of their uw.edu email address in order to set up an appointment. No specific advance preparation is required.

Students who want to take a proficiency exam in Indonesian in order to waive the one-year College of Arts & Sciences world language requirement for graduation should email Professor Desiana Pauli Sandjaja at sandjaja@uw.edu with their name, UW Seattle student ID number, and confirmation of their uw.edu email address in order to set up an appointment. No specific advance preparation is required.

A $20 fee is required to take the proficiency assessment in Indonesian. To inquire about the availability of financial hardship fee waivers, please contact the placement test instructor. For more information, please see this page.

The assessment is primarily oral, and will focus on speaking and listening skills.

Study materials for Indonesian are not available at this time.

Please see this page for the Asian Languages & Literature department’s policies on exam reporting. If you are taking the Indonesian test for the purpose of fulfilling any requirement other than the College of Arts & Sciences one-year foreign language requirement (for example, proficiency requirements for degrees in JSIS, CISB, Linguistics), you must email the language program coordinator jameel7@uw.edu by the deadline listed in the above linked page indicating where you need the scores sent.

For further details on placement testing, students should contact the faculty member associated with the level they are planning to test in.

There is no current limit for the number of times a student can take placement or proficiency tests in Indonesian. However, we recommend students try to give themselves at least 4 weeks between tests to allow sufficient time to study in a way that will see scores improve in a meaningful way.

Unfortunately, the department is not able to provide breakdowns of proficiency test scores for exams to students. Test results are valid for one year.

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 to gain entrance to a course may be dropped from the rolls of that course.