<p>anybody who has rea - can you guys show me how the ap latin exams are scored?</p>
<p>bump bumpity bump bump</p>
<p>does anyone know the answer to my second question?</p>
<p>"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>
<p>bump/ we should start an APLatinLit07 chat on AIM. <em>sigh</em> what study aids are you using other than notes? online sites?</p>
<p>i'm on the edge of giving up for this exam. i took a practice test yesterday. the results...devastating 8_8</p>
<p>lol.....are there practice tests online</p>
<p>i doubt it. there's only one prep book with practice exams. it's published by REA and just came out this year.</p>
<p>I'm taking Vergil in two days. I'm thinking I might get a 4, but who knows. I hate that collegeboard is so tricky in their MC Latin. I miss my nice, familiar, straightforward NLE questions.</p>
<p>anyone wanna share some advice to us test takers?</p>
<p>hm...soo how'd it go for yall? =)</p>
<p>bleh. multiple choice was death.</p>
<p>Advice: Take your time and MEMORIZE EVERYTHING. I got a 5 doing just that last year. I think I just got another 5 today.</p>
<p>My son said the mc was hard but the essay was ok. what do you need to get a five? what % do you need to get correct to get 5?</p>
<p>I took wer-gul today (Virgil). MC was difficult, and the translating was kind of so-so, but I rocked the essays. 4?</p>
<p>Which should I take next year: Virgil or Literature?</p>
<p>btw, I'm self-studying with Wheelock's with a Spanish/French background.</p>
<p>I found Literature to be easier, but people do just as well...or badly... on both</p>
<p>wow self studying for ap latin with no latin experience is a horrible idea in my opinion, unless memorizing 2000 lines of catullus and ovid or vergil is your idea of fun.</p>
<p>I'm quite the language-lover, speaking 5 languages, 2 of which are romance languages. </p>
<p>Do you really have to memorize to the point of actually being able to quote stuff for this exam? What do you mean eurofootball?</p>
<p>Cooljoe: Well, you just have to remember enough to know the general idea of the passages they give you and to answer the Multiple choice. I just thought it was easier to memorize everything (especially those parts that is indicated on the syllabus), better to over-prepare. However, there are the sight-reading parts, that obviously you can't study for, but they're pretty easy if you remember vocabularies.</p>
<p>cooljoe, you absolutely have to memorize to be able to quote stuff for the exam...and not just translation...author's tone, interpretation, theme, figures of speech, allusions, everything. </p>
<p>i think it's great you're into latin, it's a fun language to know, (lots of word origins will seem obvious after latin, mythology, etc) but i think intro to latin or latin I would be the best way to start. all you will do for ap latin is either translate like crazy every night, or memorize like crazy every night, and it's not like you're taking it to speak in it. just my .02...</p>