Is DLPT Test Hard?
In the military you get a chance to take different tests to get recognized for your skills. I took the DLPT for Russian. ... I have to say, this is one difficult test. Even the native speakers of Spanish, Russian, and German were struggling, but mind you that hey still achieved stellar scores.
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:
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.
DLAB And DLPT: Military Language Testing (And Pay) Explained
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