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Greek Exemption Exam This test is not a placement test. If you want to enroll in a Greek course at UCI, consult the UCI
General Catalogue, School of Humanities -- Foreign Language Placement section -- for placement procedures and policies.
The
highest proficiency level attainable at UCI by taking the Greek
exam is 2C.
This test may be taken
only once. No University credit is given. There is no fee to take the test
if you are a UCI student.
This exam consists of short
answer items and lasts two hours. The number of exam items is variable according
to the size of the test. The following topics may
be covered on the exam: Translation: short prose
passages at sight from Greek into English
Parsing: Greek words
within these passages
Accidence: declension
of nouns, conjugation of verbs
Vocabulary: Greek into
English
A good review of these topics
may be found in Chase, Alston Hurd, and Henry Phillips Jr. New Introduction
to Greek, (3rd ed.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965. Contact the Department of Classics
located at 120 Humanities Office Building 2, telephone (949) 824-6735, to make
an appointment to take this exam. When you appear to take the exam, you must present
two forms of valid picture ID.
Results will be available
during Finals Week in the Academic Testing Center, 3040 Anteater Instruction
and Research Building. If you pass the test, notification will be sent to your
academic unit where the results will be placed in your academic file.
If you need further information on language breadth testing, please e-mail the AcademicTesting Center at testcenter@uci.edu or call our office at (949) 824-6207 or contact your academic counseling office.
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