Placement Exams (old)

Arabic is one of the languages that students can use to fulfill the Hunter College Language Requirement. Students who have not fulfilled the language requirement before arrival at Hunter and would like to do so with Arabic can fulfill the requirement by successfully completing either Intermediate Arabic 2 (ARB 202) or Intermediate Arabic for Native Speakers/Heritage Learners (ARB 248).

Students with no background in Arabic at all should register for Beginning Arabic 1 (ARB 101), which is only offered every fall and summer. The successful completion of ARB 101 fulfills the CUNY Common Core World Cultures & Global Issues (WCGI) requirement.

Please note that the first 4 classes in the Arabic language sequence (ARB 101, 102, 201, and 202) are not open to native speakers/heritage learners of Arabic. By native speakers/heritage learners we mean students who grew up in an Arabic speaking households. Native speakers/heritage learners are eligible to take our two-course sequence designed specifically for them: ARB 148 and ARB 248. The successful completion of ARB 148 fulfills the CUNY Common Core World Cultures & Global Issues (WCGI) requirement and successful completion of ARB 248 fulfill's the Hunter College Language requirement. Native speakers/heritage learners who successfully complete ARB 248 are eligible to take ARB 301.

You are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity if you need to fulfill the foreign language requirement (the Hunter Focus/Concentrated Study) and if any of the following considerations apply to you:

• You have studied one of these languages in high school or at another college,
• Some time has passed since your last foreign language course,
• You have some knowledge of language but never studied it formally,
• You have had exposure to the language through family, social, travel, or work connections.

Placement Exams will be conducted in-person at the Chanin Language Center in Room HW 209. See below for the exam dates: