The Hebrew Placement Exam

All present or prospective students wanting to meet the Hebrew Language requirements at the SDA Theological Seminary at Andrews University without taking a class can do so by signing up for the Hebrew Placement Exam. The exam is called “placement” exam because the results will determine whether you have passed all Hebrew language requirements or are placed into an OTST551 (Hebrew I) or OTST552 (Hebrew II) course.

The exam can be taken only once and consists of two parts:

• In the first part, basic Hebrew-I questions are being asked. The second part is identical to the Hebrew-II Final Exam used in all OTST552 (Hebrew II) courses. One has successfully passed a part when scoring at least 75%. If one has not passed the first part of the exam, one must enroll in an OTST551 course.
• In the second part, basic Hebrew-II questions are being asked. If one has passed the first part but has not passed the second part, one must enroll in an OTST552 course. If one passes both parts successfully, all language requirements are fulfilled, and the student can move on to enrolling in exegesis courses.

The exam is a proctored 3 hours exam. For the first part of the exam 60 minutes are allocated. The second part needs to be taken within 120 minutes.

The exam is offered each first Friday of the month at 9am. To register please fill in the sign-up form here. Information about the exam location is provided by the OT department.

Exam results will be available instantly. The placement exam can be taken only one time! However, the exercise links below can be used endlessly to make good preparation possible.

Below, you can see what type of questions you will have to answer in the different parts of the exam. Each exam part is hyperlinked (underlined, blue table headers) so that students can begin exam preparations. You can exercise and test yourself on each category by clicking the hyperlink. The actual placement exam will draw from the same pool of questions from which the hyperlinked exercises are drawn.

Part #1: Testing of Hebrew-I knowledge

Students at any location can prepare by using the above links.

Part #2: Testing of Hebrew-II knowledge

Students at any location can prepare by using the above links.

Placement Exams for Partnerschools

The exam will be made available by the OT department at the Seminary and can be taken at the location of any of our partner schools. Please contact the department (email) to request a placement exam to be set up for your school. The requesting school should provide the OT department with the date and time they want the placement exam to be available. Instructors can also use the exercises in the tables above for their classes as class material.

How to take the Placement Exam?

Once you have requested a placement exam with the OT department (email), you are provided with the exact time and date when the exam will be available. You will then have to take the following steps:

1. In the Bible OL enroll into the class with the name “AU Hebrew Placement Exam”.
   

   

   The following video shows how you can enroll in classes:



2. Once you have enrolled, you can see the Placement Exam under “Exams”. The following video shows how you can find and take exams on the Bible OL:
   


3. When you are finished taking your exam, you can look up your exam results instantly. The OT department will inform you within a few days with an official email that you have failed or partially/fully passed the language requirements and will provide you with further instructions in case enrolling in an OTST551 (Hebrew I) or OTST552 (Hebrew II) course is required.