Placement Exam and Instructions

French Placement Instructions

Please read carefully before taking the placement test:

  • If you have never studied French, you do not have to take a placement test. However, since French 101/102 is a two-semester course, you will have to wait until the following fall to register.
  • If you have studied French before coming to Mount Holyoke and wish to take a French course, please take the French placement exam below. We no longer require a questionnaire.
  • Placement test results are good for one semester only. If you do not register for a French course in the semester in which you take the test you must retake the exam to enroll in a subsequent semester.

1. Your placement test results will be transfered to ISIS, giving you permission to register. This process may take as little as one hour or until the end of the next business day. You may see when your test results have been transfered by:

  • logging into ISIS,
  • choosing ISIS for Students, and
  • selecting Approvals, Holds, and Registration Access Time.   

On that display you will see the French course/courses for which you may register.

2. Please register for an approved French course before registration ends.

3. Please register for one course only:

  • French 201 and French 203 require a conversation lab, so you must also register for one of the 201 or 203 lab sections;
  • If you are placed in 215 or higher, there is no conversation lab. [Despite the different numbers, all four culture and literature courses (215, 219, 225, and 230) are on the same level. You may register for the course of your choice.]

French Placement Exam

You must:

1. Fill in your first and last name in the boxes indicated.

2. Use your Mount Holyoke email address in the box indicated.

3. Go to the online MHC French Placement Exam and fill in this password: marylyon (all lower case).