Dlpt Test Army
The DLPT is administered on a regular basis to Defense Department linguists including military linguists serving in uniform. The test measures the speaker's ability to function as a speaker of another language in real-world situations.
The DLPT requires a lot of vocab “bottom up” to pass the lower levels; but for the higher levels, it requires “top down” recognition of contexts and “patterns of speech”. Students and linguists who have to translate every word do not do as well on the test as those who understand contextually.
Higher Level Passages and Lower Level Skills:
A. Each test is allotted three hours. DLIFLC conducted several timing studies for both multiple-choice and constructed-response tests to see how long it took examinees to answer; based on that, we set initial test times, which we then refined after additional studies.
DLPT Relevant Information and Guides - DLIFLC
What is a good score on the DLPT?
For instance, a score of 85 is needed for Category I languages like French or Italian. A score of 100 is needed for Category IV languages such as Arabic or Chinese.
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DLI students, regardless of their course grades, may not graduate without achieving an L2/R2 on the DLPT. They must also pass a series of tests called FLO (Final Learning Objective) Tests, as well as achieve a minimum of 1+ on the OPI.
Defense Language Proficiency Tests - Wikipedia