Before you begin the Spanish Placement Exam, you will be required to answer some basic questions about your experience with the Spanish Language.  The exam is a multiple choice test drawn from a question bank.  You may change your response as many times as necessary until you select the "Confirm Response" option.  Once this option has been selected, the program will "draw" another question from the test bank--a more difficult question if your response was correct or an easier question if your response was incorrect. 

Upon completion of the exam, the program will automatically tally your responses and display your score.  This score can then be compared with a chart that correlates the scores to course offerings (for example, a score of 185 would rate a placement in Spanish 102).  A score above 350 when paired with a successful completion of an oral interview with a Spanish professor, offers the option of "testing out"* of the language requirement at URI or enrolling in a 200 level course (such as Spanish 205).