<p>The old one got deleted.</p>
<p>But anyways, for the few people who took it, how did it go?</p>
<p>I skipped 2, and guessed on every other one. (well, I had definite answers for like 10-20 of them...but the rest were guesses...not good hahah)</p>
<p>When I started the test, I was on the roll b/c of the simple declension questions. But when I came to the deragitive and then the translation, I was kinda clueless so I guessed on most of them too. However, b/c there were only 4 multiple choices, instead of 5 like some other tests, the chance of getting one right from guessing is better. I just hope that helped. </p>
<p>I skipped 4 and, like you, I am sure I got at least 10 right. lol I just hope the curve is generous.</p>
<p>omit 2-the poetry one with the lines (??!?!) and one "switch the latin" question where I couldn't recognize a single word!</p>
<p>I thought it went fairly well. The passage questions were the only ones that really gave me any trouble. I left 4 blank on the poetry passage, but answered all of the other questions.</p>
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However, b/c there were only 4 multiple choices, instead of 5 like some other tests, the chance of getting one right from guessing is better. I just hope that helped.
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<p>You lose a 1/3 of a point instead of a 1/4 if you get a question wrong though, so it takes away from only having 4 answers to pick from.</p>
<p>"the poetry one with the lines (??!?!)"</p>
<p>That was one of the few I was actually clear on. We did scansion in AP, and since the macrons were there to identify long and short syllables, I was all set. Fortunately for you there was only one question like that!</p>
<p>I had a lot of trouble with the reading passages too. I don't have any sight-reading practice.</p>
<p>This is unrelated, but can someone tell me how to quote other people in replies please? My quotation marks look...pathetic, haha</p>
<p>Put:
[<em>quote]What you are quoting here.[</em>/quote]
without the asterisks.</p>
<p>placidia, i seem to have had a totally different learning experience in latin than you. my teacher is obsessed with sight practice...basically in my honors class, he gives us passages where we know like 1/2 the words, and 90% of the grammar, and tells us to translate...apparently next year (4th year) we're just doing poetry</p>
<p>I was lucky there was only one scansion though!</p>
<p>Any SPECIFIC questions that anyone would like answered? ^_~</p>
<p>Yes, does anyone know how the Latin curve works?? Like how much you can omit or get wrong and still get a decent score?</p>
<p>Thanks, Aeneas! Let me practice quoting now!</p>
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<p>I agree, Anon. Our teacher stressed memorizing noun and verb endings (although we never used them, we just listed them out once on a test and that was it), and since we were in AP we HAD to learn poetry and scansion. But with sight translation, she never required it at all. We were free to find [incorrect] translations online and hand those in as homework. It was totally messed up. That's why Latin was more of an independent study for me this year, besides the fact that I wasn't even in the class because of scheduling, but that's a whole other sad story.</p>
<p>Ooh, I want to know about the curve too! Is it as friendly as the Math 2 one?</p>
<p>I don't have the book, but my friend said that it was similar to the Math 2 curve (i.e. 7-8 or so wrong is 800).</p>
<p>Ugh, are you for real? Now I'm embarrassed that I only scored a 780 =(
Then again, everyone in my Latin IV class scored >750. But, not =/> 780 =)
Wierd.</p>
<p>Hey, was the test really hard? I am considering it as one of my subject tests, but I will only be in IB Latin 4 when I take it. Is that okay?</p>
<p>I think a lot of it is knowing your grammar and being able to sight read.</p>
<p>Aeneas: How many years of Latin have you had? Have you taken the National Latin Exam, and if so, is there a correlation in difficulty? My daughter may be taking the subject test in December or next June.</p>
<p>The test evaluates knowledge of grammar. The many reading comprehension passages and accompanying questions are comparable in difficulty to those found on the National Latin Exam.</p>
<p>I've just finished Latin 3. The grammar and derivative questions were quite a bit easier than the ones on the 3-4 prose NLE, but the reading comprehension was harder.</p>
<p>The NLE has q's regarding history, mythology, culture. The subject test doesn't have any at all.</p>
<p>I agree that the reading comprehension was harder.</p>
<p>I found the Latin test curve in the Official Collegeboard Subject Tests Book. A raw score of 66-80 = 800, 52 = 700, and 39 = 600. So if you guys want, you can speculation your scores from there.</p>
<p>Yeah, I really missed the history/myth/culture questions: they're the easiest part of the NLE!</p>
<p>Edit: Great, the curve's better than I thought it was!</p>