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OCR GCSE Latin summer 2012

how many of you have this. I have language 1, 2 and for prose my class studied a yellow textbook consisting of pliny, livy and suetonius (talking about ghosts, caesar and romulus respectively); for verse we did the aeneid book 2.

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Reply 1

117r

Hey guys! Did this last year (Germanicus and Piso, some other stuff, and the Aeneid 2 for set texts)!

Good luck to y'all. :biggrin:

Reply 2

enimpri

I'm doing Latin and Ancient Greek (OCR) this year
Doing language 1 and 2 and then prose we're doing Tacitus - Germanicus et Piso - and Pythius and Clodia
And then verse I'm doing Aeneid 2 as well :smile:

Reply 3

username967389

same as you hines.... greek set text is a bugger.

Reply 4

enimpri

Iliad? Hard to translate.. haven't got many style points for it either.
Glad that Greek is later in the exam season though

Reply 5

ZakariaMar

Which one are you all most nervous or unsure about? For me it's certainly the yellow book I studied which I mentioned; basically because it's the first time it will be used this summer so our class have not been able to practice with any past questions.

Reply 6

ZakariaMar

Papers 1 and 2 should be fine, it's mainly the case (assuming you're pretty good with grammar) of knowing as much vocabulary as possible. I think the word order sort of develops as at the start of the year I really struggled with this but now it's quite intuitive even if you don't recall the correct cases from the endings etc.

Reply 7

thetejmaster

Has anyone got the jan 12 Latin papers 1 and 2 and ms?
Would really appreciate if I could get them from someone

Reply 8

123xxx

Original post by thetejmaster

Has anyone got the jan 12 Latin papers 1 and 2 and ms?
Would really appreciate if I could get them from someone

I took them as a second mock because I didn't meet my target grade the first time round but I don't have a copy of them. I'll email my teacher to ask her to upload them to my school VLE though :smile:

Reply 9

123xxx

How is everyone revising for the upcoming language papers? I'm just scared they won't go as well as previous translations because of nerves- it's only my 2nd external exam as I'm in year 10!

Reply 10

username967389

Original post by 123xxx

How is everyone revising for the upcoming language papers? I'm just scared they won't go as well as previous translations because of nerves- it's only my 2nd external exam as I'm in year 10!

You'll be fine, as long as you know vocab and tables. The main worry I have is losing too many marks to get an A*- the 90% boundary is quite high, so losing marks through carelessness can easily drop you a grade.

Reply 11

overlyambitious

Original post by ZakariaMar

I'm doing exactly the same!

Reply 12

123xxx

Original post by eebootwo

Thank you! I got an A* in the January papers I took a few weeks ago so hopefully and the literature papers can bump up grades too. Yes, I always lose marks though noun endings so I especially need to revise them.

I'm taking the Germanicus and Piso, Phythius and Clodia section of the prose paper.

Reply 13

Mazzini

Original post by hines

Same.

Reply 14

123xxx

I use these vocabulary flashcard testers and find them the best way to check my vocab knowledge so you might want to have a look at it: http://vle.sherborne.com/resource.aspx?id=31290

I also came across some other resources on their school's website with readings of set texts and grammar powerpoints here:
http://vle.sherborne.com/classics-1/latin/gcse

Reply 15

thetejmaster

Original post by 123xxx

thanks that would be really really useful
what set texts r u doing?
im doing germanicus+piso and aeniead 2

Reply 16

overlyambitious

Original post by 123xxx

it says that you need a username and password to access the shelborne website :frown:

Reply 17

123xxx

Original post by overlyambitious

it says that you need a username and password to access the shelborne website :frown:

Oh, how strange! It works for me and I don't go to the school or have a username :/

Reply 18

Dominic101

Original post by eebootwo

its 90% ums for an A* ? im in deep ****
also ive got no idea what im meant to do for the literature part XD

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 19

UserUnavailable

I'm scottish and sitting gcse latin as a crash course. We only get a one hour long tutorial per week, and we started the course in september and sat the mock in december, and I ended up doing pretty badly and just getting a B. What would be the best way to revise? I'm sitting the first language paper on friday afternoon so I don't have very long to get up to date. I struggle with the grammar the most, because on some weeks we could learn 2 or 3 new types of grammar in one lesson, and it isn't very well explained.

also, what exactly are the set text exams like? We've went through the translations etc for virgil, germanicus and piso and pythius and clodia, but we've not actually been told what to do with it. Is it just a straight translation of the text or is it like a comprehension?

thank you!