Latin A2 AHHHHH

lse hopefully

whats your offer 3 A's?

I know, i thought that too. maybe they altered the verse paper boundaries because ppl had seen the ovid before?

Ye unfortunately 1 star 2 a's - doing law lol I see you live near my old school - do you know st.pauls?

Pm me your email, and anyone else, I have a tonne (I'm a little bit ocd about tacitus notes so have like a billion that your welcome to

Just checked last year's grade boundaries - 78 and 82 was 90 UMS in verse and prose respectively! Maybe I'll meet my Cambridge offer after all... (though I shouldn't get so cocky with mocks around the corner)

where did you find this out? Do you have a link?

http://www.ocr.org.uk/download/admin/ocr_60650_admin_units_at_a2_june_11.pdf

Looks like it was actually 81 last year for the prose. Neat. Ended up getting 45.5/50 and 33/50 in language/lit parts of my prose mock so hopefully I'll get my lit up a bit for the real thing...

Excellent That's not too bad actually, I was worried that they would be much higher. The examiners' reports are so harsh

I love this: "The unseen translation: most candidates were able to accrue at least a few marks on this question." 'At least a few marks' out of 30??

Any ideas on on the Livy and Vergil set texts? My teacher promised me the extract with Aeolus would come up...

Lol I swear the reports are basically identical each year as well

Any ideas on on the Livy and Vergil set texts? My teacher promised me the extract with Aeolus would come up...

Yeah though there's only been two years of this spec anyway so I guess there's not much room for variety. Looking at the reports I seem to do the exact opposite of what most people do - I struggle a bit with the lit side but do really well on the language

It seems that the way to succeed with the lit is to take it line by line, while still addressing the question I'm most worried about timing if I'm honest I could see myself writing far too much for the lit questions...

Yeah I just never quite get the marks I'd like. I suspect my teacher is very harsh - he doesn't seem to use a mark-scheme, he just automatically seems to give a 'C/D' if I do something he doesn't like. The Virgil synoptic essays are pretty nice though.

Timing's OK for me - the examiners suggest that people who do the language parts first 'have the right idea', and I think it really helps because you can blitz through the language in 30 minutes and then have 45 minutes in the bank for each lit question. It's much better than at AS when the literature was all in one paper - that was awful for timing...

Sometimes having an overly harsh marker can be a good thing - pushes you more imo Greek is about two weeks before Latin though so I'm kinda more worried about it atm, especially since it seems no matter how much vocab I seem to learn I can never quite *everything* in the translations, unlike in Latin.

AS lit was so stressful Though these exams are more pressure for me since my Oxford offer depends on getting As in Latin and Greek. I take it Camb didn't specify the subject you need the A* in then?

Oh yeah definitely. I was getting B/C grades all the way through Lit last year but ended up getting 91 UMS - similar in History. There are two people in my year doing Greek and they're pretty scared too - one of them actually skipped our prose mock because he didn't want to pollute his Greek lit knowledge with Latin lit revision. I totally bombed at Greek GCSE so respect for doing it at A2

Yeah I can get the A* in whatever I want - I'd like to have one in English since it would be a bit awkward not to get one in the subject I'm going on to study but I think it's more likely I'll get one in Latin depending on how my coursework went. But surely A grades in Latin and Greek will be pretty easy if you did well at AS? I know I only need something like a mid-C in Latin this year to get an A which wouldn't be a big worry for me really..!