CREDIT BY EXAMINATION - LATIN

Policies Effective for the Academic Year 2009-2010*

*This is to be used as a guide only. Policies are subject to change.

UT Austin provides you with the opportunity to earn course credit by examination. Such credit will satisfy degree requirements in the same way as credit earned by passing a course, except that it will not count as credit earned in residence. Although you may take tests before you enroll in UT Austin, you must be a currently or previously enrolled student in order to receive credit. Unsuccessful attempts to earn credit by examination will not become part of your official transcript.

Faculty members in the Department of Classics select the tests, set the levels of performance required for credit, and specify who is eligible to take the tests. DIIA-Student Testing Services assists the department by communicating policies, giving the tests, and reporting the credit.

TESTS USED BY UT AUSTIN

Students who wish to attempt to earn credit by examination in Latin have two options:

• The UT Austin Test for Credit in Latin
• The College Board Advanced Placement Examinations in Latin

ELIGIBILITY FOR CREDIT BY EXAMINATION IN LATIN
You can earn credit for only the course(s) for which you do not already have a passing or failing grade.

UT AUSTIN TEST FOR CREDIT IN LATIN

The UT Austin Test for Credit in Latin is optional. Test results may be used for course placement, as well as for receiving credit. However, course placement is not exclusively dependent upon students' performance on the test, and all students who plan to enroll in a Latin course, whether or not they take the test, should confer with one of the Classics advisers in Waggener Hall 123 before registering.

The test, which is designed to measure ability to read and comprehend Latin, consists of five sections as shown in the table below. You should select the section that corresponds to the course(s) for which you are attempting to earn credit by examination. Each section takes between 45 minutes and one hour to complete. The working time allowed for the test is three hours. Each section has Latin prose and/or poetry passages to be translated (see the description of content for the specific authors examined). Certain passages also have questions to be answered.

TEST ADMINISTRATION

Test Periods: The test is offered on campus several days before class registration in January and August. Test schedules giving details will be available from the Student Testing Services web page.

Test Registration: You must register for a test online.

Test Registration for Students with Disabilities: If you require academic accommodations or assistance due to a documented disability, you should contact these two offices at least five business days before the day of the test:

• Services for Students with Disabilities, in the Office of the Dean of Students at ssd@uts.cc.utexas.edu  http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/ssd/, or (512) 471-6259 to seek approval for authorized accommodations;
• DIIA-Student Testing Services at (512) 232-2662 to register and make arrangements to take the test.

Registration Fee and Test Fee Payment: The total test fee is $70 (subject to change). When you confirm your registration for a test you will be immediately billed a non-refundable test registration fee of $15. The remainder of the test fee will be billed after you take the test. Payment is due within 14 days after the test administration.

Repeating the Test: You may take the UT Austin Test for Credit in Latin only once.

Admission to the Test Room: When you register online you will be given the location of your test room. You must present, at the test room, a generally accepted form of identification that includes both your signature and photograph. Without such identification, you will be admitted only if you bring and relinquish a photograph of yourself. You should take several sharpened No. 2 pencils to the test room; all other test materials will be provided.

Test Results: Results are available within a few days after the test date, at a time and place announced at the test administration. Once they are available, results may also be found online.

COLLEGE BOARD ADVANCED PLACEMENT EXAMINATIONS IN LATIN

Credit in Latin can be earned on the basis of two College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations, Vergil and Latin Literature. (Please note, the College Board will discontinue AP Latin Literature after the May 2009 exam administration.) College Board AP Examinations are offered once a year in May, usually in high schools that offer College Board Advanced Placement courses. Although determined by each school giving the test, registration deadlines are no later than March. Test results are available in July. These tests are not offered on the UT Austin campus.

The AP Examinations are based on course descriptions prepared by The College Board. A course description, which includes sample questions, is available for these examinations at the College Board's Web site www.collegeboard.com/apcentral.

If a high school in your vicinity is not administering AP Examinations, you can request special testing arrangements by contacting AP Services, Box 6671, Princeton, NJ 08541-6671, 1-888- CALL- 4- AP.

Level of Performance Required for Credit

AP Examinations have a score range of 1-5. Satisfactory scores for credit are as follows:

PETITIONING/CLAIMING CREDIT

UT Austin students must petition (or claim) their credit to have it appear on their official transcript.

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