World Language Credit through Testing


Loudoun County Public Schools allows students, with the ability to comprehend and communicate in languages other than English, to earn high school credits through State approved world language assessments. The Credit Through Testing (CTT) exam measures students’ language proficiency in order to award two high school world language credits.  Students who pass the exam will also meet the language proficiency requirement to earn the Seal of Biliteracy at graduation.

The Credit Through Testing (CTT) exam is designed to assess students’ first language proficiency, and is available for students in grades 9 through 12 only, whose first language is not English.  The following languages will be available for the Credit Through Testing exam: American Sign Language, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese/Mandarin, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Pashto, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese. 

For more information about the CTT, eligibility, testing dates,  and more, please click here.. Registration opens on August 24, 2024 and closes on October 21, 2024.

Eligibility:

  • Students who do not already have levels 1, 2 or 3 credits in the language of the exam on their transcript (from another country or from the U.S.)

  • Students who wish to earn the Seal of Biliteracy and already have credit for levels 1 & 2 in the language of the exam.

  • Students who are sufficiently proficient to write in the exam language.  A student who does not possess this writing ability will likely have difficulty demonstrating the required writing proficiency to pass the exam.

  • One component of the exam is for the student to read and comprehend the instructions and writing prompts in the exam language. If the student has difficulty reading the exam language, he/she will likely be unable to understand the prompt well enough to write a cohesive response.

Students may register for the CTT on LARS (through LCPS Go) beginning August 24, 2024. A confirmation ticket will be sent to the student and the parent/guardian email on file.