<p>So, I had to do it. I know it's a bit late, but I didn't see a "Post AP Latin Vergil and Latin Literature Scores" thread, so here we go.</p>
<p>I took Latin Lit this year and got a 5. Yay. Vergil last year got a 3 LOL. :)
Post away.</p>
<p>I thought last year was the last year they were offering Latin Lit!</p>
<p>HA, well, I feel like an idiot now posting… but I will anyway. I took Latin Lit as a 3rd year student and got a 1 on the test. I have absolutely no clue how this happened because I thought my essays were great. I should have studied more, but I decided to focus a little more on my other AP tests. Latin won’t really get me much of anything anyway. I hate Catullus though… Ovid was ok. My class wasn’t really that great either because it was split into Latin Lit and Latin Vergil. So my teacher was teaching two classes at once. Also she didn’t really let us do our own thing, we just translated during class as a group (which I didn’t really like). Then the Vergil’s would do their own thing. Ya, but I thought I did a lot better than that… I don’t know what happened.
dchow08, this year was the last year.</p>
<p>^I know how you feel with the teacher doing a split class… last year and this year, my AP Latin classes were taught by an uncertified teacher, mostly just student-led LOL, and this year it was a Latin III class and a Latin IV class at once… so the Latin IV students got 25 minutes of learning each day. Yeah fun stuff.
I’m surprised you didn’t like Catullus… his poetry was hilarious.</p>
<p>Ugh… Catullus’ poetry was funny sometimes, but my class has a general consensus that we want to go back in time and punch Catullus in the face, haha. He is just a creeper.
Ya, my class wasn’t very good and our textbook for Latin 1 and 2 was not good. We never really did translations at all, so AP Latin was a surprise. Also, the class was really disorganized and didn’t prepare very well for the AP test. My teacher did translation tests that were past AP translations, so most people would just go online and find the translation on the collegeboard website that went with what we did (me included sometimes because I didn’t have time to study 200 lines or so). I’m hoping this years AP latin class will be better. If it is I will probably take the AP test, but if it is not, then I’m going to devote my time to my other 7 some APs.</p>
<p>Catullus is the man. Catullus 16 is quite an interesting poem…(wikipedia it).</p>
<p>Anyways, took Latin Virgil…was tired after doing other AP exams so I got a 3. I thought my essays were nearly flawless…but I wouldn’t have doubted it if I had gotten all the MC wrong.</p>
<p>Ha, ya, the MC was horrible as usual. I already read Catullus 16, it is actually all this one kid would talk about in my class (he is a very strange person). </p>
<p>Catullus is more of a bipolar creeper than anything, haha.</p>
<p>I’m still debating on whether to take Vergil or not…</p>
<p>^Vergil was easy… I know I got a 3 on that, but it was because I had never sight translated or done prose or anything, so MC was a buuuuuusttttttttt. Vergil gets very easy to translate… he’s a bit weird at first but the poetry is so predictable, his literary devices and word order and everything, just very easy.</p>
<p>^^INVENIAMVIAM (I like your name by the way), do you think that Vergil will be a lot easier now that I know what to expect?</p>
<p>Probably… I didn’t realize what was going to be on the MC part at all, and was sooo not prepared… If you do Vergil this next year, you can still use online translations, but… ehh… I wouldn’t depend on them that much. In my Vergil class I definitely used online translations, but I tried more to look exactly how each Latin word corresponded with the translation, and at least that way you’ll get so that you see where the translation isn’t as literal as it should be. For Catullus and Ovid, I was way better at translating and mostly just sight translated it literally, but sometimes using an online translation (along with your own translation) can help you figure out stuff… I just wouldn’t depend on it too much. That way, you’ll be used to sight translating so it won’t be too bad when you get to the MC part of the exam.</p>
<p>Vergil likes to use -ere instead of the third person plural -erunt ending too btw, have fun with that when everything looks like an infinitive :)</p>
<p>I got a 3 on the latin lit exam this year. Basically the sight translations screwed me over because I took a look at them and I was like… crap 
but the essays went well!</p>
<p>I guess i just don’t like the way the AP does stuff (especially their grading on the free response section). Like i’ve gotten a summa cum laude (or w/e the highest award is on the NLE) for 4 years in a row now but the ap just kills me. Even my latin teacher who has a PhD in latin classical studies agrees.</p>
<p>Got a 3 on the Lit exam this year but I completely bombed the essay and translation. Did not do a good job memorizing the poems and thus I only was able to translate like 1 line (and can not analyze either).</p>
<p>I guess my MC was pretty good though</p>