<p>I will probably take that in October, so does anyone have any thoughts/advice on the exam. I realize that it's not very "popularly" taken, so any thoughts will be appreciated.</p>
<p>So, i guess it's not given in October, but then ill prolly take it in December....</p>
<p>bumpity bump bump</p>
<p>I've taken it.</p>
<p>The grammar questions are a lot like the ones on the National Latin Exam. However, some reading passages might be a little harder, so about AP sight reading level. Actually, I thought the AP passages this year were easier than the SAT II one I took in June.</p>
<p>I have! I studied it for about a year and took the test. got a 700 (yes, I'm proud of it).</p>
<p>The test is mostly grammar. I believe CB tries to split up the test into different sections... like a grammar section, a derivative section, and a separate reading passage section. However, there are a significant number of grammar questions in the reading passage section, so I'd really focus on grammar. Don't cram extra vocab. Realistically, I don't see how it could make a major difference. The derivatives are easy. It's not supposed to be a test of Latin vocab, but rather a test of the English-Latin relationship. Thus, they choose common Latin words... It's not bad at all.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>There also might be stuff about scansion.
But yeah, grammar is basically the biggest part and study a lot of exceptions especially verb tenses and how different tenses are used in different types of sentences w/ certain trigger words. For example the ablative is used for comparison sometimes after comparative adjectives.
Cramming vocab is useless but practicing reading passages and reading comp is important. Most times you can figure out what a word means from context. But if you don't know more than the basic vocab, then maybe you shouldn't take the test. Errrmmm....I think that's it.</p>
<p>haha it's like a reunion of our june latin thread! how happy. my colleagues (lololol.) seemed to have covered pretty much everything but if you are looking for a review book i'd recommend the REA book. there's nothing much else anyways. but anyway, it's a good book with solid review and good (two)practice tests. best wishes and happy studying!</p>