Exams in classics at University

I’m planning to go to university when I leave school to study Classics and I was just wondering about the exams. What are the classics exams like? Are they like history exams in high school? How long are they? How many questions is there?

Reply 1

PinkMobilePhone

Depends which university you're at.

At Leeds I had Classics exams but I can't remember much about them (it was a long time ago).

At the OU I've only had 1 exam and it was a Latin exam, and it was done from home, I had 24 hours in which to do it, and it was open book. Every other year it has been purely assignment based.

Reply 2

xyz1234567

Each university will be totally different and it will also depend what type of papers you take as a Latin language exam is going to be very different from one on Greek tragedy in translation.