OCR Latin Language AS 22nd May 2014

User1206819

Hello, this is the official page for the OCR Latin Language AS paper on 22nd May 2014. Post questions, predictions etc. in the run up to the exam and unofficial mark schemes + questions after the paper.

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Reply 1

Missfatimaxo

Sooo scared for that exam

Reply 2

Wiggledinho

1st translation should be fine
Cicero is going to be absolutely awful

Reply 3

memoona123456

[QUOTE="Wiggledinho;47707514"]1st translation should be fine
Cicero is going to be absolutely awful[/QUOTE

I'm doing prose composition lol. I hope it's okay

Reply 4

User1206819

It should be alright. We'll see ... I just hate small words like quoad and tantum and uterque and omnino, because the second you forget one it's a major error.

Reply 5

Wiggledinho

Crazy to think that tomorrow will be the last Latin unseen translation that I ever do after 6 years . . .

Reply 6

memoona123456

How did you all find it???

Reply 7

Annie19m

Original post by memoona123456

How did you all find it???

I thought section A went well, but struggled with the Cicero section: particularly the clause which started 'si vere...'.

Reply 8

rosieserena

I found the Cicero actually easier than Section A...bit worrying...

Reply 9

Student2014A

Original post by rosieserena

I found the Cicero actually easier than Section A...bit worrying...

I agree with you, I struggled with the dialogue part of Section A the most :frown:

Reply 10

Haza2012

I would agree there, I found the Cicero unnervingly easy compared to the Section A, but overall, I think it was a fair exam.

Reply 11

User1206819

Yes. I think they made up for a relatively challenging 70 markers with an easier 30 mark Cicero passage. I think quite a few people struggled with the sentence 'id faciam si mihi fidem dederis quam postulo.' I put 'I shall do it, if you give to me the loyalty which I demand.'

Reply 12

memoona123456

Yehhhh I put that that too!!!!!

Reply 13

memoona123456

I did the prose composition not the Cicero.... I think it was okay

Reply 14

br13

Section A was pretty hard i thought. The word 'remotis' was in there - its not on the vocab list but were we meant to just know that it was 're' - 'motis' as in something to do with moving back? The phrase was 'omnibus militibus remotis' I think I actually just put 'with all the soldiers having been removed'

(edited 9 years ago)

Reply 15

Wiggledinho

Original post by br13

yeah thats exactly what I put :biggrin:

Reply 16

br13

First line 'Ubi Hannibal puer erat novem annorum, pater eius in Hispaniam proficiscens Iovi sacrificium fecit.'
When Hannibal was a boy of 9 years..... anyone want to offer what they got for that next part?

Reply 17

memoona123456

Hahahah i got stuck on that next part, what did you put?

Reply 18

br13

his father setting out to Spain he made a sacrifice to Jupiter............. eugh something like that... couldn't figure out how to make the present participle and past tense fit together!