<p>Im taking ap latin lit this year, has anybody taken this test and gotten a 4 or 5 on it?</p>
<p>what recommendations would you make to me about study book and tools to use etc.?</p>
<p>what kinda questions are on the multiple choice?</p>
<p>Got a 4 on Lit. Prep Catullus hardcore and Ovid. Any more questions...?</p>
<p>lol so far i have yet to meet someone who has gotten a 5?</p>
<p>why must poetry be so hard.......yeah im doing ovid and catullus too</p>
<p>any aspects I should particularly work on?</p>
<p>Well 5s don't really give you extra credit anywhere else. 4 does it almost everywhere.</p>
<p>At any rate, I assume you've finished one of the authors fully by now. As such, continue reading/translating the other until about the end of March.</p>
<p>From then on, I would just start reading a few lines of the Latin side by side with the English translation online. If you have a general idea of the Latin but KNOW the English translation you can game your way through the test.</p>
<p>Got a 5 on Catullus/Horace by working my tail off. Just study as hard as possible and know your stuff.</p>
<p>Yea, I just realized, AP Latin Literature is a ***** to study for just because theres like 2000 lines. Also why is everyone taking catullus-ovid? Is anyone else taking catullus-horace? Hmm, and I'm also taking AP Vergil this year so that amounts to about 4000 lines to study for. Does anyone know how they grade the translation? And what about the multiple choice? How good does one have to be at sight reading?</p>
<p>My son will take virgil in May. Anyone who go 4 or 5 can you give some advice on translation? He is studing indepently on this and he is also curious to know how to study for the multiple choice. are there any place on online with practice mc anywhere? thanks so much</p>
<p>I took Virgil last year as a sophomore, and I plan to take Literature this year as a Junior. I got a 3 last year, which was fairly disappointing, but I must say that the test is very hard. Make sure that you are completely prepared, especially with book 6 of the Aeneid. Also, reading the Odyssey and the Iliad help conceptually. The multiple choice is not very hard, but the translation/analysis questions are very tricky. I'm sure I will do better this year on the lit exam, but I'm counting on it being just as hard. Also - know all characters, major/minor. You will have you analyze two or three of them. For Lit it might be helpful to draw comparisons to the Aeneid, if you have read it. Remember, Horace, Catullus, and Virgil lived around the same time period and Horace and Virgil communicated directly. They were obviously influenced by each other, and it helps to draw comparisons. My teacher grades the Virgil exams in New Jersey, so I can speak somewhat confidently on that subject.</p>
<p>Thanks Jpantoga
How long have you taken Latin?
My son took Latin for a year. studied with weelock and went right into virgil. He studied independently. He is aiming for a 3. Some one told him if he studied the lines of virgil then he could probably do ok on the free resp. the sight translation seems really hard for him though. any other comments that will help my son get a 3 on AP will be greatly appreciated. thanks</p>
<p>I am currently in my 5th year of Latin.<br>
Assuming he understands the essay questions and can get a solid amount of the multiple choice correct, botching some of the translation questions should not prevent him from getting a 3. As long as he has a general understanding of each question, and is not thrown completely off guard, he'll do fine. Book 6 is especially important though. I might be a little worried of his lack of preparation, having studied mostly independently. There is no vocab assistance on the free-response, so he should make sure that he understands that. The AP graders love to include passages including Homeric Simile's and speeches/dialogue, so he should focus on those points. (especially book 6)</p>
<p>thank you so much</p>
<p>anybody have any of the ap latin released exams ?</p>
<p>i am a senior about to take the AP Vergil exam in three weeks. my Latin class actually only contains two students (myself included) and my teacher is amazing, but she does not have much experience with the AP exam. does anyone have any released multiple choice for the Vergil exam? also, i'm wondering - how much grammar do i really need to know? we're only translating from Latin to English on the exam, and since memorizing grammar takes so much time, should i be content with just being able to recognize forms and spend more time reading over book 6 (like a lot of ppl above suggested)? any advice would help me right now! thanks :)</p>
<p>2000 lines isn't that bad, just do 10 lines a day right? Is it that you have to memorize all the vocab or something that makes it hard?</p>
<p>Also, which is easier/taken first and more useful: Virgil or Lit?</p>
<p>I'm taking AP Latin Vergil this year and I got a 5 last year on AP Latin Literature; I did Catullus-Ovid. </p>
<p>The multiple choice section is pretty tough. Review vocab daily and grammar/syntax. Other than that, just make sure you know everything that will be tested on the syllabus.</p>
<p>Also, on the essays (This info comes straight from my teacher, an AP grader/table leader):</p>
<p>Make sure the latin is cited in each reference, and make SURE that you cite latin from the entire piece. This is used to distinguish 3s from 4s and 4s from 5s. If you do not cite enough or use all that is given to you, they will often give you a 3 on the essay.</p>
<p>When you say cite the Latin, do you mean copy out the exact sentence or phrase you're translating and put it in parenthesis?</p>
<p>How much depth do they look for in the compare and contrast essay? The question seems pretty straightforward. Are they checking for mostly background knowledge or ability to critically analyze?</p>
<p>Are you guys using any AP review books? I think REA is the only one available but it looks pretty good.</p>
<p>Jpantoga, can you clarify how we should cite? Thanks</p>
<p>Not copying out a whole sentence, but using a parenthetical + ellipsis (arma...oris, line 1) will definitely suffice. If its just the word, something like (arma, line 1) is fine. They're really not that picky as long as the knowledge is in there. Although the readers have a firm guideline for what they are to allow in translations, they do often find themselves checking around with each other to understand a student's idea and whether it is worth points. As such, the grading system is somewhat flexible to allow for multiple translations / analyses. They look for a decent amount of depth, i.e. a full analysis. Although the questions seem straightforward, so are a lot of the answers they receive. Thus, they use deeper analysis + background knowledge to distinguish the great essays from the good ones.</p>
<p>Thanks Jpantoga for clarifying!</p>
<p>So I'm guessing a good analysis essay would sound similar to the ones we write for English lit or composition then? The last essay always asks you to pick one character from two groups. Should we both compare and contrast the characters? The direction just say "discuss each character's deception and its purpose, as well as its effect on subsequent events" (<-- example from 2003 exam). Nowhere does it say to connect the two characters together... But I feel like if we are asked to write ONE essay, how can we write two paragraphs that don't relate?</p>