Latin A2 AHHHHH

Original post by blahblah16

Yes but I and the 6 other people doing Latin in my year forgot the present part argh was proud at getting that and I knew it was present just forgot it was necesary to say that

I bet they'll give it to you anyway, it'd be really stingey not to. And yeah, that one was like an epiphany.. The rest of the paper, not so much :redface:

Oh to have 6 other people doing Latin with me - there's only 3 of us doing it in my year, 1 doing it this afternoon and 1 had extra time, so I had no time to whinge about it with anyone after the exam :frown:

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Yes the grade boundaires would be the same, they dont differentiate if the caesar happens to be harder. Ye grade boundaries should be lower since more people do the caesar and it was harder than the english to latin

Reply 164

TheWaffle

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Does anyone have the details of what passage the Caesar was from? Thank you! :smile:

Xxx

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Original post by TheWaffle

Does anyone have the details of what passage the Caesar was from? Thank you! :smile:

Xxx

It's number 14 in here http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_caesar_bellumciv_2_latin.htm
I'm sure you could find a translation online by looking for Civil Wars II but I can't face that right now :redface:

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AmroTT

Well... That paper was something of a gift after last week's fiasco.

The Tacitus sections were good, as were the accompanying questions. Pleased with those.

Then I did the Prose Comp. Apart from blanking on all the words for 'attack', 'take heart', and 'stand firm' and using alternatives I stuffed it full of Style marks sooo... Fingers crossed that'll come right.

Really pleased with how that went. I know those in my year that did the Caesar complained at how hard it was. I just looked at the length of the passage, chuckled, and turned over.

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Marisa_Grace

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Original post by AmroTT

Well... That paper was something of a gift after last week's fiasco.

The Tacitus sections were good, as were the accompanying questions. Pleased with those.

Then I did the Prose Comp. Apart from blanking on all the words for 'attack', 'take heart', and 'stand firm' and using alternatives I stuffed it full of Style marks sooo... Fingers crossed that'll come right.

Really pleased with how that went. I know those in my year that did the Caesar complained at how hard it was. I just looked at the length of the passage, chuckled, and turned over.

I know what you mean about the 'take heart' thing. I didn't know what to put for that so just tried to use an alternative.

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Choca Mocha

i just googled animadverti and this is what it came up with:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animadverto

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Original post by Marisa_Grace

I know what you mean about the 'take heart' thing. I didn't know what to put for that so just tried to use an alternative.

i put moti sint

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Original post by AmroTT

Well... That paper was something of a gift after last week's fiasco.

The Tacitus sections were good, as were the accompanying questions. Pleased with those.

Then I did the Prose Comp. Apart from blanking on all the words for 'attack', 'take heart', and 'stand firm' and using alternatives I stuffed it full of Style marks sooo... Fingers crossed that'll come right.

Really pleased with how that went. I know those in my year that did the Caesar complained at how hard it was. I just looked at the length of the passage, chuckled, and turned over.

For attack i used impetus facere, for take heart - moti sint and stand firm i put in posito tenere (i think the last one is wrong).

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http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=animadverti&la=la

Original post by Choca Mocha

i just googled animadverti and this is what it came up with:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/animadverto

this shows you all the possibilities for what it could be :smile:

Reply 172

AmroTT

Original post by Marisa_Grace

I know what you mean about the 'take heart' thing. I didn't know what to put for that so just tried to use an alternative.

'Nunc fortiores in anima' = 'Now stronger in spirit' is what I wrote instead :smile:

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miraclemile

Definitely agreeing that Tacitus was surprisingly pleasant, and Caesar made me want to bash my head against the desk repeatedly at times :tongue:

Ah well, I'll just wait and see, with fingers crossed I suppose. I'd be alright about it if it wasn't for the stupid A*!

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aliceb

Caesar was awful! I just looked up the translation and got soo many bits wrong :frown:

I looked up the grade boundaries for last year's prose paper, 73 for an A, and in the verse only 70 for an A, which comforts me slightly lol

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Original post by aliceb

Caesar was awful! I just looked up the translation and got soo many bits wrong :frown:

I looked up the grade boundaries for last year's prose paper, 73 for an A, and in the verse only 70 for an A, which comforts me slightly lol

I have a feeling the verse boundaries will be ridiculously high though due to people having already done the passage. ye hopefully the prose boundaries will be lower due to Caesar.

Reply 176

AmroTT

Original post by LawQC

I have a feeling the verse boundaries will be ridiculously high though due to people having already done the passage. ye hopefully the prose boundaries will be lower due to Caesar.

On the Virgil front, I don't actually think they will (re: my last post on this issue). Firstly because I'm not sure it's conferred that much of an advantage on anyone, and those that have seen it before are unlikely to remember a great deal - if they do however, they'll be a fractional minority.

Factor in the fact Ofqual have had several complaints about it, and OCR have too. It hasn't hit the national press (and I doubt it will now), but they're aware that allowing high grade boundaries because of this egregious oversight of theirs will undoubtedly be a deeply unpopular move with the centres.

And let's not forget, there aren't that many that do Latin; so they're (relatively) small and intimate meetings that they have. Any bad feeling in a meeting like that will come out, from the teachers concerned. It's their students and their departments who suffer, after all.

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Salvius

Well that was pretty hideous! Tacitus was okay...Caesar was a complete nightmare- the questions were terrible and the translation didn't seem to hold together...if anyone knows what i mean by that! :confused:

Just really hoping for incredibly low grade boundaries, though it seems unlikely :frown:

. Didn't help that it followed the worst C4 paper i have ever had to face aswell.

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