<p>so who here is taking this dreaded exam with me???? Im rereading the entire Aeneid tonite. only 170 pages to go!!! AGH!</p>
<p>bump…no one else??</p>
<p>It is a dead language…</p>
<p>I’m taking Latin Lit tomorrow. I’ll read through the poems I didn’t spend much time on tonight and review some poetic stuff. I’m eager to get it over with, but not too stressed about the test itself since I just need to pass to get all the credit I need.</p>
<p>I’m taking Vergil! It doesn’t count at all for me, though, because I got a 5 on Lit last year and my college only will give me credit for one Latin AP. I have to take the AP, though, or I lose the AP designation on my transcript. I might read the Sparknotes tonight.</p>
<p>I took Vergil last year straight out of Latin I and got a 3. yay. lololol. I have Latin Lit this year though, should go a lot better, I think.</p>
<p>im going to fail so bad. havent done anything all year. our class read out loud a sample 6 essay and cried</p>
<p>^how on earth did you pull that off with only a year of latin ?!!</p>
<p>im gonna die in this thing. im rereading my translations, but i suck so bad at grammar its gonna be a slaughter. how am i supposed to write a good essay in 20 minutes?? im praying for a 3. but i guess it doesnt matter cuz im not taking it in college. klaz413 thats incredible!!! same to you INVENIAMVIAM</p>
<p>Unfortunately I am… I don’t have that much pressure though because I got a 5 on the Lit exam last year. I don’t think I’m going to do very well though because I haven’t gone through the whole poem yet and I’m not going to have enough time. Even though the Vergil test only has a couple hundred more lines than the Lit. exam, I swear it feels like there are 1000 more. Maybe its because the poems for the Lit exam are split up, but studying for this exam is just killer; it takes forever. I also think that Vergil used much more varied vocabulary while Catullus repeated a lot. And having to know the english part too sucks. </p>
<p>What I hate about these latin APs is that you have to learn 1800+ lines and then they only ask you about 100 of them. It’s ridiculous!!</p>
<p>I think we [you guys] are missing the point. Everyone keeps complaining about having to leaaaaaaarn aaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllll these linessssssss. But I think what they’re getting at is that after we’ve gone through the Latin, we should have had enough practice translating that even if we have no recollection of the passage at all, we can sight translate it. Doing the Latin throughout the year helps build up the vocabulary necessary to translate on the exam and the grammar knowledge needed as well. I haven’t approached either Latin exam with the mindset of actually REMEMBERING a line so that I could specifically be like “Oh, I remember, the translation is EXACTLY ‘________________________’” and then try to get all the points like that.</p>
<p>Dunno about you guys, but I started studying for the thing about a month before hand. I got in at least 120~ hours of studying. I know that’s overkill, but I knew how everything was translated exactly just by reading a line. I also knew all the notes about the author’s style in specific passages, which made the essays really fscking easy. xD</p>
<p>Our teacher was ****, though. It really was better to just ignore her ramblings and do it on my own. </p>
<p>Just for future reference… I made a format of the entire Aeneid we read with Latin printouts. I’d make it double/triple spaced and put the English translation beneath it. I used this to go through the entire Aeneid at a pretty slow pace, about 100~ lines a night or so, consistantly going back to previous nights for review. I also reread the english versions of the books, and memorized all of the Latin literary devices and uses, and some locations of them in the text. Just by going through the lines (I had my book open next to me) I was able to also review the author’s notes. That helped with specific literary devices and their contribution to the text. The notes also included explanations of why Vergil chose specific structuring/words/images, etc.
It was a lot, but I walked into that exam feeling absolutely prepared. </p>
<p>That’s my idea of how to study for it. >.></p>