Latin a-level students

How did you all find it?

10 marks questions weren't expected!
The Cicero one was very specific !

I agree! I though the translation was pretty straightforward and that's 30/100 marks and the 3 mark questions were quite nice too! The final 10 marks asking why you would recommend the poems was just really silly. The Cicero was was okay but I don't know if I made enough points. Last years grade boundaries were around the 80/100 mark for an A. Not sure what everyone feels this grade boundary will be.

This is what I remember from 3 painful years of latin...

Caecillus est in horto, cerberus est mortus

This is what I remember from 3 painful years of latin...

Caecillus est in horto, cerberus est mortus

Looks like our feelings oppose re 10 markers! Thought the Amores one was okay and there was at least a bit you could say about it, but I thought the Cicero was a horrible question, I pretty much ran out of people to talk about! Translations were great though - if the Ovid was 4 lines lower I would have been in deep trouble though, that's my worst section!!!

Thing is with the Latin papers you just don't know if the examiner will think you have explained your content (& style) points well enough, I really hope mine are okay. Gotta say it was my worst exam so far but purely because of that aspect.

I just hope I have an A. I'm sure you will have done well Good luck in the rest of your exams x

I really hope so too, I will be gutted if I don't because I did work really hard to know the texts. I hope you did well too You too how many have you got left?

Aww thank you, i hope so too! That was my last one actually. I do Latin , RS English lit and German. Have you got any more left?

Nice choices I have 5 more unfortunately as I do Maths, Further Maths (well this year Maths A2 next year F.Maths A2 - that's why I have so many more exams cos they're a bit later), Latin and Computing

Are you taking Latin next year?

This is what I remember from 3 painful years of latin...

Caecillus est in horto, cerberus est mortus

Ah right! Well, they'll soon be over! Yes I am, I'm carrying on with all four hopefully... Depending on results day are you dropping it?

Studying Latin at A-level, about as useful as studying the prevalence of myopia in fruit flies.

A shame you didn't say the prevalence of myopic in fruit flies, which is very useful indeed...

Useless, schmuseless. Heaven forbid you study something because it's interesting.

Also transferrable skills highly valued by employers blah blah blah. Frankly I don't give a toss - Latin language is interesting and gives you access to a huge segment of ancient thought in history, philosophy, oratory etc. in a way you can't otherwise have, and you get to study some of that at A level.

Is History A level useless? Is English A level useless?

Useless, schmuseless.

I completely agree, that article on myopic is both interesting and useful.

I also appreciate that you find Latin interesting, but if you are going to study a classic, why not Greek, surely that has more links to our literary, philosophical and political traditions than latin, so therefore as well as developing those transferable skills, you also study a language that is a little less dead, yet still allows for the benefits that you find in latin?

Personally thought it was a lovely paper, translations were nice and the Ovid 10 marker was unexpected, but great! Basically just had to say why you liked the poems!

Something I didn't like was the space left for 6 mark questions. I felt quite restricted in my answers and had to go onto extra paper at the back (although then I felt I was writing too much). I'm pretty happy with it tbh, hopes it makes up for the language paper...

I also appreciate that you find Latin interesting, but if you are going to study a classic, why not Greek, surely that has more links to our literary, philosophical and political traditions than latin, so therefore as well as developing those transferable skills, you also study a language that is a little less dead, yet still allows for the benefits that you find in latin?