<p>In order to make some additional room in my schedule, I really need to study for a P&P (pencil and paper?) Latin placement exam during one of the dates listed on the USC website. With that in mind, does anyone know what specific topics are being covered in the Latin exam? There's only so much you can know and do, and I hope to God that they don't force us to write in Latin. That would be a catastrophe.</p>
<p>If anyone has any insight, please let me know. You would be an absolute life-saver!</p>
<p>i just finished taking latin 1-3 this year, and i know i’d say around 90% of the grammar. (including formal names) while i obviously don’t go to USC, here’s a few things you should know (most people don’t care as much about the grammar as me, i’m kind of into linguistics, but googling this stuff should be a quick refresher):</p>
<p>subjunctive: know how to spot and recognize jussive noun clauses (use the mneumonic “she wears a giant diamond” e.g. laudas [2ps present active indicative] would turn into laudes [2ps present active subjunctive]) passive: know how to decline verbs decline and the differences between the the first and third conjugations indirect statements: used with sort of sensory verbs (“said that…”, “discovered that…” etc.) subject is in the accusative, and the infinitive is used as opposed to the conjugated verbs. indirect question: uses subjunctive, i think subjects are in the nominative (google) passive paraphrastic/ablative absolute: the latter are usually pretty easy to spot if you just see a ton of ablatives next to each other. PPs are just the gerundive (e.g. laudandus + the conjugated form of sum. relative pronouns: interrogative adjective, interrogative pronoun, relative clauses, relative clause of characteristic. gerund/gerundive: know which one is used an as adjective, and which one is used as a noun. deponents: know which verbs are deponent (e.g. utor, uti, usus sum) defective: know which verbs are defective (e.g. audeo, audere ausus sum)</p>
<p>i mixed this in from various parts (mostly from latin 2, including some of latin 3) but if you don’t recognize most of this stuff you’re not in the best position. I had a friend who didn’t pass the latin 1 test but the teacher let her add it anyway since she took like 5 years of it haha.</p>
<p>anywho, if you have any more questions about it, be sure to send me a message.</p>