Latin

Assessment

Unit 01 Language - 1-hour 30-minute paper There is a prescribed vocabulary list of 800 words, building on the 500 that students learned for GCSE; any word not on the list but used in the exam is given. The paper requires translation of one passage of Latin, and either a series of comprehension questions on a passage of Latin or a translation of five short sentences from English into Latin. Unit 02 Literature - 2-hour paper The paper requires translation and analysis (the literary criticism students practised for GCSE) of two Latin texts, one prose, and one verse. This year, the prose set text is Tacitus’ Annals 4, and the verse set text is Virgil’s Aeneid 12 (see back for what they’re actually about).