{"id":4065,"date":"2015-06-09T10:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T17:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2016-05-18T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T16:51:42","slug":"lpi-what-is-it-and-do-i-have-to-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2015\/06\/09\/lpi-what-is-it-and-do-i-have-to-take-it\/","title":{"rendered":"LPI: What is it and do I have to take it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Similar to a challenge test, the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ubc.ca\/first-year-english\/frequently-asked-questions-faq\/first-year-english-course-entry-requirement\/\" target=\"_blank\">Language Proficiency Index (LPI)<\/a> assesses a student&#8217;s readiness to pursue academic work in critical reading and writing at a university level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The LPI can be used to meet the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/english.ubc.ca\/first-year-english\/for-students-in-other-faculties\/\" target=\"_blank\">First-Year English Course Entry Requirements<\/a>, if you do not meet any of the other requirements (e.g. a certain grade in English 12).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please refer to the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ubc.ca\/ugrad\/1styear\/faq.htm#1\" target=\"_blank\">Entry Requirements<\/a> to see if you need to take the LPI. If you do, please note the <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.english.ubc.ca\/ugrad\/1styear\/faq.htm#4\" target=\"_blank\">deadlines<\/a> to meet the Entry Requirements for First-Year English Courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Similar to a challenge test, the Language Proficiency Index (LPI) assesses a student&#8217;s readiness to pursue academic work in critical reading and writing at a university level. The LPI can be used to meet the First-Year English Course Entry Requirements, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/2015\/06\/09\/lpi-what-is-it-and-do-i-have-to-take-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722149,1108267],"tags":[366,986299,647381,748854],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-lfs","category-other-news","tag-english","tag-lpi","tag-new-to-ubc","tag-registration-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsundergrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}