IF REQUESTING TO TAKE A LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY EXAM:
Please submit this request within the first two weeks of the fall or spring semester in which you wish to take an Elliott School coordinated language proficiency exam.
All students must take the online language diagnostic exam and include a screenshot of the diagnostic exam results in their request to take an Elliott School coordinated language exam.
Your request will be reviewed by the language coordinator and they will email you with a decision within 5-7 business days.
If your request is approved, you will receive emails regarding steps you must take to sign-up for both the speaking and reading portions of the exam. It is important you read all of these emails and register and sign-up for your exams within all of the stated deadlines, otherwise you will not be able to sit for the exams for that semester.
For additional information regarding the language proficiency exam, including:
- eligibility
- process
- timeline
- required proficiency exam levels
- online diagnostic exam (results to be submitted with this request)
- examination options with third parties for languages not offered at GW
Please see the following website:
https://elliott.gwu.edu/undergraduate-language-proficiency-exam-process
If you are submitting a request to take an exam with a language institute or another college or university for languages not offered at GW, you must submit this request before you take the exam with the third party.
For more information on proficiency exams for languages not offered by GW, please visit the language exam website.
If you have any questions, please contact your academic advisor.
IF YOU ARE AN F-1 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT REQUESTING TO HAVE YOUR LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT SATISFIED WITHOUT A DIAGNOSTIC OR PROFICIENCY EXAM:
International students who were required to take a TOEFL (or other English language) exam as part of their admissions application to GW will automatically have their language requirement satisfied for the B.A. and B.S. in International Affairs majors. Our regional majors require the language be associated with the region of study, therefore the English language exam submission will not automatically satisfy the language requirement - instead, you can contact your Elliott School advisor who will need to confirm the language is associated with the region of study.
If you are an F-1 student from a country where English is not predominantly spoken, but you were not required to submit an English language exam as part of your application to GW, you can submit a Policy Exception Request to request to have your language requirement satisfied without taking coursework or language exam, but this will only be approved if acceptable documentation is provided. If acceptable documentation is not provided (i.e. a transcript showing instruction in the language to a specific level; evidence you did take and submit an English language exam when you applied to GW), you will be asked to take an exam or language coursework to satisfy your language requirement.