Latin A2 AHHHHH

Just done a load of mock papers, and I honestly couldn't feel worse about the Ovid translation. I've revised so much vocabulary and yet when it comes to translating it there's still far too much that I don't know, without even having the grammar issues. Think I'm going to have to wave goodbye to my firm offer to be honest.

Just done a load of mock papers, and I honestly couldn't feel worse about the Ovid translation. I've revised so much vocabulary and yet when it comes to translating it there's still far too much that I don't know, without even having the grammar issues. Think I'm going to have to wave goodbye to my firm offer to be honest.

I am so glad to hear that everyone else is finding this difficult! It seems so damn unfair that an A in this is equal to an A in any other subject...! To whomever said they read the examiner's report, I also had the feeling that it said that many, many people find this paper a bitch, in no kind terms. I'm sitting this subject on my own at my school so I have no one to compare against, always a bit worrying to know how I'm getting on
Good luck to you all!

I am so glad to hear that everyone else is finding this difficult! I'm sitting this subject on my own at my school

If it helps, I study it at a grammar school. Most people in my class who are going to get straight As with minimal effort in their other subjects, find this a total b!tch of a paper... and that report was partially reassuring, partially really terrifying.

To whoever said they were going to give it up after AS, don't speak too soon, that was my plan but here I am now... I took Art A level which really wasn't for me, and LAtin is such fun to study, really it is, it's just that this paper is horrible.

Calmed down a bit now. Hopefully the grade boundaries are no higher than last year. That way I think I may just be able to manage it by getting high marks on the Vergil and scraping as many as possible on the Ovid.

I'd treat the 'oi' in 'Troi' as a diphthong so 2? I doubt anything that ambiguous would come up in an Ovid unseen though, they tend to make scansion fairly straightforward. Shame they can't do the same for the rest!

Our teacher gave us a brilliant one that asked us to consider how good a mother Venus is to Aeneas. When you think that one through, it'd be a gift Also, ones about Aeneas' ability as a leader of men (which I assume will come up at some point during the text's lifetime on the syllabus, so half-and-half we'll see a question on it) are good to have pre-planned I think

oh also, which report is this? and i'm also wondering about this 'clash of ictus'- how do you recognise it?

I googled it, it's when the point of emphasis in the way a word is said is not the same as the emphasis in the metre (or something like that)

i.e. praerupta aqae mons - this is an example of clash of ictus because usually the last word would be two syllables.

It seems to be really extremely difficult to recognise and I am just regurgitating information without understanding but there might be someone else out there who understands and can explain it better than me, if so please do!!!

Can we answer the questions in a different order on the paper? For example starting with the Ovid translation and then doing the literature? Just double checking.

Thanks!