Classics Applicants 2021

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by jzaveri28

hiiii guysfor people applying to oxbridge, how did you find the CAT/CLATI did the Latin part of the CAT and really can't gauge how well/badly I did at all

I did the latin part as well, I found the prose ok but the verse considerably harder (sort of expected - I really struggle with verse). Not feeling too horrible about it, I would agree that I don't really know how to tell how bad/good it went.

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Venusplants

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I found the CLAT much harder than some practice papers. :frown:

Section B was a doozy!

Reply 42

Venusplants

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by laurenbalmerrrr

Hey! I've applied for Oxford (Univ), KCL and Manchester aswell! Hows it going with pre course stuff for Oxford? Good luck for the CAT/CLAT! Also I haven't got offers from any of them either yet :/

Oh sweet! I haven't heard from Manchester or KCL either but soon, hopefully. :smile:

Finished the CLAT today and written work all sent off!

Reply 43

jzaveri28

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by tasha2803

I did the latin part as well, I found the prose ok but the verse considerably harder (sort of expected - I really struggle with verse). Not feeling too horrible about it, I would agree that I don't really know how to tell how bad/good it went.

omg I'm completely the other way round! reading through a translation of the quintilian passage online made me realise Id got the wrong end of the stick several times! but I mean they're supposed to be really hard so I guess thats to be expected

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Imoutofmydepth

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Got an offer from Birmingham today! Attainment (which is basically CCC) if firm and ABB if insurance :smile:

Reply 45

carrot4599

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by jzaveri28

omg I'm completely the other way round! reading through a translation of the quintilian passage online made me realise Id got the wrong end of the stick several times! but I mean they're supposed to be really hard so I guess thats to be expected

omg stop looking over the translations afterwards was not a good feeling :/// But yes I definitely did find parts of the prose so tricky, I don't know why they chose Quintilian lol they could've given us a chance!!
And exactly we wouldn't be trying to pay them 9k a year if we were already perfect at latin so I'm sure you did absolutely fine

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laurenbalmerrrr

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by Venusplants

I found the CLAT much harder than some practice papers. :frown:

Section B was a doozy!

Section B I found quite hard aswell, I missed out on a couple of the last questions from there, but I found Section A&C not easy, but also not that hard so I'm not stressing yet lol

Reply 47

Venusplants

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Just got an offer from Manchester for classical studies! :biggrin:

Reply 48

jzaveri28

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Hey guys,
I just wanted to ask, what are you sending in for written work? I'm applying for Classics and English so they want one English essay and one Classics-based essay but I'm not sure the lit crit essays I've written for Latin are suitable

(edited 5 years ago)

Reply 49

lwal1

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Hey everyone! I'm applying for Classics II at Oxford (Worcester) and Classics at Durham, Glasgow, Manchester and Swansea and I've had offers from the last two. I found the CLAT harder than the past papers as well. It took me a while to understand the language rules but the last few Section B questions were really hard. Question 2 in Section A was especially hard because the language itself is so confusing.

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Venusplants

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by lwal1

Hey everyone! I'm applying for Classics II at Oxford (Worcester) and Classics at Durham, Glasgow, Manchester and Swansea and I've had offers from the last two. I found the CLAT harder than the past papers as well. It took me a while to understand the language rules but the last few Section B questions were really hard. Question 2 in Section A was especially hard because the language itself is so confusing.

Hey! I'm applying to Wadham. :smile:

Completely agree! It just took me absolutely forever to figure out the language rules and even then I didn't finish section B. But maybe Oxford knows it was a harder paper? I've heard lots of people had a harder time with it.

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lwal1

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by Venusplants

Hey! I'm applying to Wadham. :smile:

Completely agree! It just took me absolutely forever to figure out the language rules and even then I didn't finish section B. But maybe Oxford knows it was a harder paper? I've heard lots of people had a harder time with it.

Yeah hopefully. If everyone found it hard then it will probably balance out like grade boundaries do.

Reply 52

annabelle51

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by izzareid

Hey all!!

I thought it might be nice to start a discussion about Classics and those applying to university to study it (as I haven't seen many threads!). I've applied to read Classics at Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, St Andrews and Reading (and I actually got an offer yesterday!).
Is anyone else doing anything similar? :smile:

Hi, another future Classicist here! I have applied to Oxford, Durham, Exeter, Edinburgh and St Andrews (for straight Classics) and have so far go an offer from Exeter yay! :smile:

Reply 53

Ollie.rxc

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Hi

I've applied for Classics at Oxford (St. John's), Durham, UCL and I've already gotten offers from Bristol (AAB) and Manchester (ABB). I submitted my written work to oxford yesterday and I'm worried neither piece is good enough.

After looking up the passages online, I realised I completely misunderstood the Greek verse and Latin verse passages in the Cat. Any else find both verse passages much worse than the prose?

Reply 54

kat273xx

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I thought that the verse was so much harder than the prose too. Although, I've not looked either up as I don't want to know how badly I've messed them up lol

Reply 55

AmberGrey

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Yeah I found them both way harder than the prose, and I also did the Latin verse last (after having already sat the ELAT since I'm applying for Classics and English), which led to me translating 'silva' as silver...... yeah I know, ouch. I'm hoping they'll think I can't possibly be that dumb and give me the benefit of the doubt on being tired.

Reply 56

AmberGrey

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by AmberGrey

Yeah I found them both way harder than the prose, and I also did the Latin verse last (after having already sat the ELAT since I'm applying for Classics and English), which led to me translating 'silva' as silver...... yeah I know, ouch. I'm hoping they'll think I can't possibly be that dumb and give me the benefit of the doubt on being tired.

I'm applying at Exeter college in Oxford, Edinburgh, St Andrews, KCL and Durham (all for c+e) btw, and no offers yet :frown:

Reply 57

jzaveri28

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by AmberGrey

Yeah I found them both way harder than the prose, and I also did the Latin verse last (after having already sat the ELAT since I'm applying for Classics and English), which led to me translating 'silva' as silver...... yeah I know, ouch. I'm hoping they'll think I can't possibly be that dumb and give me the benefit of the doubt on being tired.