What is classics at A-level like? Is it like the sources part of Latin GCSE?
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Hi, I’m choosing my A-levels this month. My current options are maths, further maths, history, and Latin, but I’m considering changing history for classics.
Can someone who does classics please tell me what it’s like?
And if you have done Latin and/or history GCSE, is it more similar to history GCSE or the sources part of the Latin GCSE? (I enjoy history GCSE, just memorising information, but the sources part of Latin is really difficult as we have to memorise loads of sources to use in the exam and the specification is really vague- it tells us the topics we need to learn, eg. sacrifices but it doesn’t go into any detail about what info we need to learn, eg do we need to know how they were carried out, what they sacrificed, who did them? Whereas the history GCSE has textbooks which tell us all the info we need to know)
Thank you to anyone who replies!
Can someone who does classics please tell me what it’s like?
And if you have done Latin and/or history GCSE, is it more similar to history GCSE or the sources part of the Latin GCSE? (I enjoy history GCSE, just memorising information, but the sources part of Latin is really difficult as we have to memorise loads of sources to use in the exam and the specification is really vague- it tells us the topics we need to learn, eg. sacrifices but it doesn’t go into any detail about what info we need to learn, eg do we need to know how they were carried out, what they sacrificed, who did them? Whereas the history GCSE has textbooks which tell us all the info we need to know)
Thank you to anyone who replies!
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(Original post by ginevrafanshawe)
Hi, I’m choosing my A-levels this month. My current options are maths, further maths, history, and Latin, but I’m considering changing history for classics.
Can someone who does classics please tell me what it’s like?
And if you have done Latin and/or history GCSE, is it more similar to history GCSE or the sources part of the Latin GCSE? (I enjoy history GCSE, just memorising information, but the sources part of Latin is really difficult as we have to memorise loads of sources to use in the exam and the specification is really vague- it tells us the topics we need to learn, eg. sacrifices but it doesn’t go into any detail about what info we need to learn, eg do we need to know how they were carried out, what they sacrificed, who did them? Whereas the history GCSE has textbooks which tell us all the info we need to know)
Thank you to anyone who replies!
Hi, I’m choosing my A-levels this month. My current options are maths, further maths, history, and Latin, but I’m considering changing history for classics.
Can someone who does classics please tell me what it’s like?
And if you have done Latin and/or history GCSE, is it more similar to history GCSE or the sources part of the Latin GCSE? (I enjoy history GCSE, just memorising information, but the sources part of Latin is really difficult as we have to memorise loads of sources to use in the exam and the specification is really vague- it tells us the topics we need to learn, eg. sacrifices but it doesn’t go into any detail about what info we need to learn, eg do we need to know how they were carried out, what they sacrificed, who did them? Whereas the history GCSE has textbooks which tell us all the info we need to know)
Thank you to anyone who replies!
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