<p>Anyone taking it?</p>
<p>I'm nervous D=</p>
<p>OMG me too… nobody ever discusses it and there are no real resources for it… Thankfully, being from the world of certamen and many a JCL latin conventions, I know the tricks that they like to use. The passages, however, are still killer for me, the one with a lack of attention span… I already took it last june after lat 3 and got a 750 but thats not good enough because I’m trying to portray to colleges that it’s my passion, yet it’s currently my lowest subject test score… Hopefully, I am now wise enough to tame it and hopefully get 770+ (tho I need an 800 desperately)</p>
<p>Pfttt I’d be happy with a 750 :)) What are the curves like? And any tricks you’d like to share with me? I got all of the collegeboard samples right but I feel like the passages will probs be harder than that</p>
<p>um with derivatives, try to find the genitive stem or the perfect passive participle in the english word so you wont get tripped up… i.e. capitulate… I associated the meaning with capio, capere- to seize, but you can tell from form that it comes from caput, capitis- head… </p>
<p>similarly tactile is a word whose derivative you can get by knowing the principal parts of the words. It was on the jun 10 test and a lot of people associated it with taceo- to be silent because of “special tactics” but you can see from the stem of the english word that it comes from tango, tangere, tetigi, TACTum - to touch… Taceo, tacere, tacui (?), TACITum, is more suitable for words like tacit… thats the only part of the test I can offer tips for… 
(thankfully there’s no hardcore etymology like sewer coming from the word aqua - which blew my mind btw)</p>
<p>If you have to scan poetry, remember that the last two syllables are always long (so the last metrical foot is a spondee), a vowel is long when followed by two consonants, by nature (like knowing that in the word puellis, the i has to be long), and diphthongs are long… watch out for consonantal i’s… (iam, iuvat, etc.)…</p>
<p>FOr ellisions, if a word ends with an m, it drops out…</p>
<p>ex:</p>
<p>tango opus = elision = tangopus <a href=“LOL”>pronounciation</a>
tango meretrix = no elision
matrem ago (LOL) = elision = matrago
matrem facio (LOL) = no elision= (would most likely have been pronounced by a roman as) matre facio</p>
<p>My poor mother! 
haha but really, thanks, that is quite helpful 
Let’s own this thing!!</p>
<p>I took the Latin subject test today…
I thought it was manageable except for the reading comprehension part.
The Medea passage was hard!</p>
<p>do you need to be at AP Latin to do well?? or would 2 or 3 years of latin be enough??</p>
<p>I’m in my second year of Latin, and finishing Jenney’s Book 1 was enough for me to get all the grammar questions correct on the official pratice test.
Taking a year of Latin poetry (usually third year) would be helpful for the poems/ scanning.</p>
<p>Interficio what state are you from? What level Latin and what grade? I might compete against you in certamen. lolo</p>
<p>curve is pretty generous. 6-7 wrong = still 800.</p>
<p>LOL I’m in Virginia. Unfortunately, didn’t make my state’s team for national convention (do you go to njcl conventions?), but I will do open certamen at nationals, where you get paired up with people from other states!</p>
<p>I took the Latin SAT II after basically two years of Latin (I tested out of 2nd year over the summer last year). I also took the AP Latin Vergil exam this year. The SAT II pales in comparison to the AP, in my opinion. If you have been preparing in an AP or highly advanced level Latin class for a few years, I think you will do fine.</p>
<p>Nice - Virginia is the powerhouse yo. I’m from California, where we don’t have to “make the team” because there are only about 4 of us who want to be on the team anyways lmao. I do go to the njcl conventions and i’m going to the kentucky one which will be my second.</p>
<p>ahaha. Well, VA is not that much of a powerhouse recently. our intermediate team last year was beast tho. I’ll be at Kentucky, too!!! It’ll be my first nationals. I’ll try to get you to recognize you by winning best in show at something, haha. Probs not the academic tests. If it happens, it’ll be in some spoken latin thing, either latin oratory or dramatic interp or sight reading (not sure if they give best in show for this; my state created the bets in show award in this because I did really well this past year… LOL)… Enough for my bragging. Crap. Now anyone from my state will know who I am!!! :O</p>
<p>yeah i heard evan draim is pro. what level latin are you in? i like oratory too as well as other stuff like certamen. they have regular placing for individual contests like oratory, and they have an overall award for best creative arts (oratory, dramatic interp, sight reading , etc). so if u do well in lots of those u’ll prolly win that award.</p>
<p>im in IV, doing AP vergil next year. suprisingly, Evan hasn’t been as good this year in upper. He can dominate the other levels, but he’s been struggling here. he didnt make the state team. My job for the next year is to become better than him. LOL. That would have been impossible any other year. LOL i really hope someone from my state doesnt find this. My big goals are either to get best-in-show in latin oratory or sight reading, but not quite sure how good people are nationally at the spoken latin, or how I’ll be received nationally.</p>
<p>Wow he didn’t make the team? That’s unbelievable … Meh he already won the entire academics overall twice so it really doesn’t matter much i guess. The national level for oratory is , of course, excellent, just do your best and you can have no regrets. Best of Luck!</p>