JAPANESE Language Enrollment Policies

UCLA students should take the Japanese placement test if they meet either of the following two categories:
(1) have any experience in Japanese (such as an ancestral background, a stay in Japan, classes in high school, community college, university, etc.) and wish to enroll in a Japanese language course.
(2) need to fulfill the foreign language requirement (for one or two years) at UCLA.

If you have NO background in Japanese, you may enroll in Japanese 1 without taking the placement exam.

Japanese Placement Exam Sign-up
Students must sign up for the placement exam in advance.  Official online signups for the examination will be available a month before the exam date. The Placement Exam is usually held on the first week of instruction (week 0 for fall quarter; week 1 for winter and spring).  Time and place will be announced on our website. Please check back a month prior to the start of the quarter.

There are no make-up exams. Students who miss the exam will have to wait until the next quarter offered. 

Fall 2008 Placement Exam Schedule is available at: http://www.alc.ucla.edu/data/examtimes.html

Enrollment in a Japanese language course
Once you are placed into a course, please wait until the quarter when the course is offered to contact the instructor of the course. To enroll in a Japanese language course, please send an e-mail to the instructor with your name, SID, exam date, and results for a PTE number. Placement test scores are valid for two years. 

Please see the Language Waiver and Placement Exam Policy webpage at: http://www.alc.ucla.edu/data/waiver.html.