<p>As far as I can tell, no one has made this tread yet. Not enough latin love </3
Anyway, did anyone take it? How'd you think it went? Were there particular problems you found troubling? </p>
<p>I think it went ok; I never feel confident in my answers, but I always feel like I can justify them. </p>
<p>I believe I got 2 of the etymology wrong.
The second to last question I left blank, what was the answer?</p>
<p>Just took the test this morning. I thought that the first passage was pretty hard, but otherwise felt confident. Anyone else?</p>
<p>What prep did you do? I looked over some charts yesterday, but pretty much just winged it, not sure that’s the best way to tackle the test. Although, I’ve taken latin since 5th grade (in 11th now) and have completed Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil.
Lol, the first passage, I’m not even sure what it said.</p>
<p>I used the REA practice book, which is pretty much the only one in existence. I was really prepared going in, and feel really good about it. I just had some issues with passage 1 and a few grammar questions. I’ve been taking Latin since 6th grade and have read Caesar, Cicero, a tad of Vergil, Catullus and Horace.</p>
<p>I thought the passages were harder than the ones on the AP, and the grammar was ok. I honestly don’t remember much from lower-grade Latin, which I think hurt me – I went through the REA book this week in between a million other things, but I should’ve brushed up wayyyy more…no idea how I did</p>
<p>thank god for the curve…</p>
<p>Yeah, the curve is a blessing. Which passages did you find hard?</p>
<p>I’m glad to see a thread now!</p>
<p>The last passage was the hardest for me. The grammar and translation of it was just not clicking in my head at all.</p>
<p>I felt pretty good on the non-passage questions though. I hate those “replace the sentence with keeping the meaning” questions! Those are always kind of a guess for me.</p>
<p>I only took it for college credit though, I only need a 550 for 2 semesters and 610 for 3 semesters. (took 3 years, had a year off since taking latin III)</p>
<p>I always have issues the “insert word” problems. Anyone know what the last passage was from? The first was Pliny and the second Cornelius Nepos…</p>
<p>Also does anyone remember the number of questions for the first passage? I’m recalling something between 10-15 questions.</p>
<p>I thought it went pretty well. I have had Latin since 6th grade as well and just completed the AP Vergil class. Anyone remember any answers they got on the test today?</p>
<p>I also thought it went fairly well. I don’t remember all the answers, but I figured out three of the four passages:</p>
<p>Passage 1 was Pliny, Passage 2 was Cornelius Nepos and Passage 3 was from Ovid’s Heroides. Any specific answers you weren’t sure of? I’m not sure about the one with “three days.” Wasn’t sure how the use of “pervenerunt” factored into whether it was an ablative or accusative construction.</p>
<p>I chose the ablative construction because I thought it was trying to say they would arrive on the third day or something similar to that.</p>
<p>That’s what I had at first but I changed it because I thought that “pervenerunt” meant “to come through” - so I thought that the sentence was saying that “They had come through Rome for three days.” Oh well, you can’t get 'em all. Did you find any of the passages really hard?</p>
<p>Not particularly actually. I thought most of them were straightforward. What did you say for the letter passage about what it implied happened?</p>
<p>I had no clue. I skipped that one. I looked up the passage though: I think it was that the freedman and the recipient had been fighting and that the recipient welcomed the freedman back into his house. Not entirely sure though. That was the only passage I had issues with; the others I’m pretty sure I did well on.</p>
<p>I thought that the guy was only receiving a letter and not actually welcoming the freedman into his house. Not sure about that, but pretty sure. I picked the answer that indicated the writer of the letter was a freedman who may have gotten angry at the recipient at a previous time.</p>
<p>That might have been it. I wasn’t entirely sure though. What did you pick for the question concerning the meaning of the first two lines of the passage?</p>
<p>Anyone else take this today?</p>
<p>I feel unworthy of joining your ranks. D: I started Latin in 9th grade, so I’m only done with my third year of Latin.</p>
<p>For pervenerunt and tres dies vs tertio die, I used the ablative “on the third day”, because it seemed clearer to me to say “They came to Rome on the third day” than “They came to Rome in three days”.</p>
<p>I dunno. Of the three tests I took, I’m most worried about Latin.</p>
<p>Ablative is for time when, and Accusative would be extent of time, right?</p>
<p>(In latin since 8th grade… how where you people in it since 5th?!)</p>
<p>Yeah, I had the ablative construction but changed it at the last minute. Oh well.</p>
<p>@AustroHungarian: The ablative is time when or within which, accusative is extent or duration of time.</p>
<p>Anyone remember about how many questions there were per passage?</p>