A-Level Latin Study Group 2024-25

Blinkr

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Welcome to the A-Level Latin Study Group!
:angelwings:

This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Latin at A-Level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.

Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.

Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!

Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.

To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

•

Which exam board are you following?

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What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

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What topics within A-Level Latin do you find the most challenging/interesting?

Reply 1

MariahOptimaMax

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I have doubts that there'll be many people visiting this board, but here goes:
Salve! I'm in Y13 and studying with OCR.
I love writing literature analysis the most - I feel that my skill in essay-writing and picking out literary techniques is my best.
Challenging... that would have to be the whole language segments. At GCSE I loved it all, but the jump to A-level is SO big, and it's all really hard!

Reply 2

Indy_b123

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by MariahOptimaMax

I have doubts that there'll be many people visiting this board, but here goes:
Salve! I'm in Y13 and studying with OCR.
I love writing literature analysis the most - I feel that my skill in essay-writing and picking out literary techniques is my best.
Challenging... that would have to be the whole language segments. At GCSE I loved it all, but the jump to A-level is SO big, and it's all really hard!

Hi, also in Y13 studying with OCR currently,
I definitely have to agree with your point on the language jump. Although the language jump is very large (slight change from a set vocabulary list to the whole dictionary 😰) it is definitely the most satisfying to gain a grasp on from all of my subjects.
Out of curiosity what literature texts did you choose to study? I did Pro Caelio and Aeneid II for AS and am now doing Annals XIV and continued Aeneid II.

Reply 3

evie1307

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Salve!! I'm doing Pro Caelio and Aeneid 2 for both AS and A2. Honestly, at this point i'm focusing so much of literature that i'm almost giving up on language as i really dont know how to revise it!! any advice would be *so* appreciated :smile:

Reply 4

DiscipulaLatini

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by evie1307

Salve!! I'm doing Pro Caelio and Aeneid 2 for both AS and A2. Honestly, at this point i'm focusing so much of literature that i'm almost giving up on language as i really dont know how to revise it!! any advice would be *so* appreciated :smile:

Do lots of unseens, just getting used to translating would be my best advice.

Reply 5

DativeMusca

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Y13 OCR here

i might be the odd one who prefers unseens/language to literature (boooring - it’s 80% regurgitating material). like i’d be happier if they gave us set cultural references to study then an unseen text on the day with scansion/translation/comprehension/essay components where you could incorporate the culture stuff

i like how the blend of myth/greater involvement of religion in day to day life in the classical world gives texts the scope for a bit of chaos, a bit of whimsy (ahem, Metamorphoses. loved translating witches biting off bits of face and replacing them with wax, on the WRONG GUY, the first time for gcse

not a fan of - you guessed it, literature - especially cicero. mr chickpea can kindly climb back into his tomb, with his texts and the AS prose bit of the exam. and juvey, and virgil and tacitus (he sure has a lot to say for his cognomen)

then again, i’m just the indirect object of a fly…

Reply 6

Indy_b123

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Original post

by evie1307

Salve!! I'm doing Pro Caelio and Aeneid 2 for both AS and A2. Honestly, at this point i'm focusing so much of literature that i'm almost giving up on language as i really dont know how to revise it!! any advice would be *so* appreciated :smile:

Do you have any tips for Pro Caelio at all? I'm finding it an absolute nightmare to learn as it's all so repetitive and stating the same points, definitely prefer Aeneid 2 as its a more linear narrative (and a lot more exciting than Cicero's speech).

Reply 7

escalating-kidna

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Original post

by Blinkr

Welcome to the A-Level Latin Study Group!
:angelwings:

This thread is a place you can connect with fellow students who are also studying Latin at A-Level. Here we offer a space to support each other support as you prepare for your exams/coursework.
Feel free to share any helpful tips, resources, or advice you find along the way, and share any questions you have about the subject.
Help encourage others, celebrate your achievements, or simply vent when things get a bit overwhelming!
Lil serious note - just a reminder please be aware that sharing or requesting copyrighted materials is against our community guidelines, and moving conversations off-site for this purpose is not allowed. Posts violating these rules will be taken down.
To get started, here are a few questions to break the ice:

•

Which exam board are you following?

•

What do you enjoy the most about this subject or course?

•

What topics within A-Level Latin do you find the most challenging/interesting?

Going into Year 13 doing OCR - Aeneid II, Pro Caelio and Pliny.
Was wondering if anyone had any tips for bringing my predicted up from an A to an A* over the summer? I’m worse at the unseen translations as I can never seem to know the vocab

Reply 8

escalating-kidna

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by Indy_b123

Do you have any tips for Pro Caelio at all? I'm finding it an absolute nightmare to learn as it's all so repetitive and stating the same points, definitely prefer Aeneid 2 as its a more linear narrative (and a lot more exciting than Cicero's speech).

For all literature I always make flashcards for each sentence with English on one side and Latin on the other. For Pro Caelio (this will sound crazy but bear with me) I like to perform it in my room as if I were giving the speech - pacing, gestures, sarcasm. I even imagine the different people are sat in different places. My family think I’m mad but it works well for me (and makes it a bit more interesting)

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