OCR GCSE Latin Paper 1 (J282/01) - 14th May 2024 [Exam Chat]

How’s everyone feeling?

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honestly not too fussed about the language paper - it's the literature that's more stressful

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True but the literature you can just learn off by heart and you’ll be fine

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yeah that's fair enough- idk if this is just my teacher but some of the literary techniques we're taught about are pretty obscure which is a bit overwhelming
Better than having a crappy teacher anyway but i struggle to believe that some of the stuff we're taught is gcse level

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Original post by Tegucigalpa

yeah that's fair enough- idk if this is just my teacher but some of the literary techniques we're taught about are pretty obscure which is a bit overwhelming
Better than having a crappy teacher anyway but i struggle to believe that some of the stuff we're taught is gcse level

Oh wow yeah that does sound tough! I only started learning the gcse 8 months ago and I haven’t even been through the techniques yet if the set texts with my tutor but he said that since I’m good at English lit I should be able to learn it pretty quick. How long did it take for you!?

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Original post by Nrrksssgucfb

Oh wow yeah that does sound tough! I only started learning the gcse 8 months ago and I haven’t even been through the techniques yet if the set texts with my tutor but he said that since I’m good at English lit I should be able to learn it pretty quick. How long did it take for you!?

Hang on do you mean to say you're sitting your exam in a few weeks and haven't covered set text analysis yet??!! Or are you in year 10?
Either way it's just a matter of being able to spot the techniques which can be difficult in the beginning, and progress was pretty slow for us so it took about 3 months to cover each set text from beginning to end

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Original post by Tegucigalpa

Hang on do you mean to say you're sitting your exam in a few weeks and haven't covered set text analysis yet??!! Or are you in year 10?
Either way it's just a matter of being able to spot the techniques which can be difficult in the beginning, and progress was pretty slow for us so it took about 3 months to cover each set text from beginning to end

No I’m year 11 😂
No I haven’t analysed it yet. I have learnt them all though! I have only been doing whole gcse tho for 8 months! I stared it start of year 11

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I have a tutor once a week for it who had been doing it with me and he says since I’m good at English lit it shouldn’t take too long…normally only takes his students a couple of weeks. Maybe I should be panicking tho 😭

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Original post by Nrrksssgucfb

I have a tutor once a week for it who had been doing it with me and he says since I’m good at English lit it shouldn’t take too long…normally only takes his students a couple of weeks. Maybe I should be panicking tho 😭

Ah well in that case you'll be fine- it's a completely different experience learning with a tutor than in a classroom. And at the end of the day he's the expert so if he says you'll be fine then there's nothing to worry about! But it would help to start soon since i think the first lit exam's on the 22nd?

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Ros_Collin

Original post by Nrrksssgucfb

I have a tutor once a week for it who had been doing it with me and he says since I’m good at English lit it shouldn’t take too long…normally only takes his students a couple of weeks. Maybe I should be panicking tho 😭

To be honest, you should be fine, I've also been doing Latin with a tutor (although for about a year and a quarter) and I've found learning the actual texts a lot harder than learning the techniques used, so hopefully you'll have a similar experience, to be honest though a lot of what I've been taught is fairly common sense (at least to me) so you should be okay!

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nm363

Original post by Nrrksssgucfb

No I’m year 11 😂
No I haven’t analysed it yet. I have learnt them all though! I have only been doing whole gcse tho for 8 months! I stared it start of year 11

don't worry! i find that the analysis is fine since, although I agree that some terms are obscure, so long as you are able to simply memorise it then you don't need long to cover it! since there is no unseen text to analyse, you don't need to be able to recognise the analysis yourself (you can just learn it off by heart in the same way that you learn the translation). Trust me, you will be fine

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Original post by nm363

don't worry! i find that the analysis is fine since, although I agree that some terms are obscure, so long as you are able to simply memorise it then you don't need long to cover it! since there is no unseen text to analyse, you don't need to be able to recognise the analysis yourself (you can just learn it off by heart in the same way that you learn the translation). Trust me, you will be fine

Thanks so much that’s really encouraging 🙂

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Good luck tomorrow everyone! I’m sure you’ve got this 💪

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amaarah008

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Original post by Tegucigalpa

honestly not too fussed about the language paper - it's the literature that's more stressful

No, I'm the complete opposite! Completely panicking about the language tomorrow but fine for the lit and the culture paper.

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amaarah008

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Does anyone have any last minute tips for the language paper tomorrow or what the paper is predicted to be on?

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nm363

Original post by amaarah008

No, I'm the complete opposite! Completely panicking about the language tomorrow but fine for the lit and the culture paper.

i think teachers 'big up' the language paper a little too much; there is so much content to cover and yet most of the time you can figure out the translation just by context. (the only thing i would say is this won't work if you don't know the vocab!!!)
the only grammar that i have learnt for previous exams have been the verb endings, noun endings, vocab and constructions/how to recognise them
for example, the endless tables we should supposedly know (eg relative pronoun, hic/haec/hoc and the list goes on) yet I have never learnt these off by heart and have got consistent 9s the entire of y10/11.
also, the exam board is quite lenient and even omitting the smaller pronouns can be an 'inconsequential' error and costs you little/no marks!!
good luck everyone :smile:

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Just out of curiosity, for question 10/11, do any of you answer both questions even though it says to stick to one in the paper? Because i've been told that if you do both you're only going to receive the marks for the section you score more highly in (since they're both out of 10)- which is fair enough, but i just wanted to check that i wouldn't be screwing things up by 'not following the exam's rules'

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Original post by amaarah008

Does anyone have any last minute tips for the language paper tomorrow or what the paper is predicted to be on?

No not really. I don’t really feel like it is something you can predict! Just got to know vocab really and like nm363 said know your basic grammar and you’ll be absolutely fine!

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nm363