Institutional Exams at UMM

Placement Examinations: Foreign Language
Spanish * French * German

UMM requires proficiency in foreign language at a one-year college level for the BA degree. The foreign language proficiency exam is both a placement and an exemption exam. It verifies your proficiency in both listening and reading skills and places you in the appropriate course in a college foreign language sequence in the first or second semester of first-year language or beyond. Many students who have had three or four years of high school instruction are proficient enough to have met the UMM language requirement with no futher study.

You must take this exam if you have had previous course work in foreign language and would like to continue with that language at UMM or to be exempt from further study.

Foreign language exams are offered at registrations, during Orientation, or through the Testing Center. If you have not taken this exam, please call 320-589-6060 to schedule an exam time.

There is no charge for placement exams at UMM.

Placement Examinations: Mathematics

The math placement exam has been designed to ensure correct evaluation of your mathematical skills prior to beginning your course work at UMM. Topics include Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry and it is strongly recommended that you spend some time reviewing those topics from your high school mathematics courses.

Although all new freshmen students are required to take this exam, not all students take a math course at UMM. The results of this exam, which are kept in your advising file, are used to place you in the math course that will be most appropriate to your particular level of previous experience--if you choose to take a math course during your undergraduate course work.

Interest Testing for Undecided Majors and Career Options

The University of Minnesota, Morris offers a variety of interest inventories that might help a student in selecting a major or a career. These tests are given and interpreted by Masters level Counselors on staff at the Student Counseling office. If you are interested in this service, stop in at the Student Counseling office, 235 Behmler Hall, and make an appointment to speak with a Counselor.