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GCSE Latin Study Group 2023-2024

Welcome to the GCSE Latin Study Group! :hello:

This is where you can chat with other students studying the same subjects as you and support each other as you head towards your exams :grouphugs:

You can post any useful tips and resources that you come across, offer support to others, share your successes, or just have moan when it gets tough! :yes:

Just remember, it’s against the site rules to ask for or offer any copyrighted papers, or to take conversations off-site to do these things. Posts that break these rules will be removed.

A few possible ice breaker questions are:
What exam board are you with?
What do you enjoy most about this subject/ course?
What area do you struggle with in this subject/ course?

Good luck with the next few months. Remember, ask for help, support where you can and together we can do this! :yeah:

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 1

Pwca

TSR Community Staff

@Nrrk2612 I turned your post into a study group for GCSE Latin - is that what were wanting?

Reply 2

Dominicque2

I guess I'll be monitoring this thread as I have paid to do the GCSE exam, as a private candidate. :smile:

Reply 3

ediebe

any tips for Latin revision for Prose and Culture (OCR) - any tips?#

Reply 4

eaglesboo8

Anyone have any tips on how to get 80> in the language paper for eduquas?

Reply 5

tlppi

Original post by eaglesboo8

Anyone have any tips on how to get 80> in the language paper for eduquas?

I'm not actually sure when your paper was (it was one of my first, I think!) but if it's passed, I'm going to post this here anyway in case anyone stumbles across it in the future 🙂

In terms of translation from Latin, absolutely #1 thing you can do is learn your vocab. Normally you can get most of the gist of the sentence from context and a little guesswork if you know what every word (probably) means. Also, exams tend to not mess around with word order too much so, if you're unsure, that helps.

In terms of HOW to learn the vocab, it can really depend. Flashcard websites (Memrise and Quizlet) spring to mind, I'm sure you can find a set for each of those (our teacher sent us them). Try and find one that has all the principle parts (the portare, portati, portatus bit), because knowing those are almost as important as learning the definitions. Try and make sure you can go both ways, if possible (ie be shown the front or back and have to give the other).
It might be a little late now but I'll note it anyway in case someone comes back to this: if you have more time (and start this EARLY), write it all out on paper, and highlight ones you're unfamiliar with (ESPECIALLY irregular words). Can't stress this enough: get PEOPLE to work with you. Find someone in your class and ask each other obscure principle parts (say, 'fuit'): translate them (fully!), and give the part of speech + part of the word. Also go backwards, ask someone to translate 'I will be carrying' etc. I've never found a website that can replicate this, and it rarely works on flashcards because you see all the principle parts etc.

In other news, next best things you can do is learn all the inflections you need to inside out. I did this by 'chanting' them (amo amas amat amamus amatis amant) - though I think I remain traumatised to this day by 'Latin Verbs Rock!', if anyone knows what that is... And then write them out... again... and again... and again... (sorry, noone said it was a fun subject!)

In terms of learning grammar, my teacher gave us a grammar with everything we had to know, which I turned into flashcards. Hopefully you've been given something similar... If not, the spec + the internet are your friends. Make flashcards, mindmaps, fill out an a2 sheet... whatever works for you! Make sure you've covered everything - I'm sorry to say that it IS worth knowing exactly when to use subjunctives etc. This also really really helps with your comprehension and also translation into Latin.

If you haven't been told this - do BOTH of the optional sections. One of the examiners taught at my school and told us that they have to mark them both and give you the higher mark. You have enough time, so it's definitely worth it.

Unfortunately, Latin isn't one of these new-fangled subjects with YouTube videos and interactive websites and whatever, but really that's part of the charm, in my opinion! Your best friends are repetition and a pen and paper...

(edited 10 months ago)

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