A Level Latin

Course summary

Our A Level Latin is a 2-year course, with no coursework. Students begin the course in Year 12 and take four final exams in Year 13 in the Summer term. Our exam board is OCR. For more information, please see the OCR website for the A Level Latin specification: https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/as-and-a-level/latin-h043-h443-from-2016/. Our A Level Latin course is made of four components: Unseen Translation, Prose Composition or Comprehension, Prose Literature, and Verse Literature. For students sitting the exam in 2023-24, Prose Literature will include excerpts from Cicero’s Pro Cluentio, Livy’s History of Rome (Book 1), and Tacitus’ Annals (Book 4), while Verse Literature will include excerpts from Virgil’s Aeneid, Catullus’ poems, and Ovid’s Heroides. For Unseen Translation, unseen prose will include excerpts from Livy, while unseen verse will include excerpts from Ovid. Prose Composition or Comprehension will include translation of or comprehension and grammar questions on an unseen prose text.