<p>will a 35 or 36 get me a summa cum laude on the national latin exam?</p>
<p>I have no idea. I’m wondering how I did T_T What level did you take iggy?</p>
<p>Depends what level</p>
<p>I dont think I did this well this year. We only got half of the time you’re supposed to get :/</p>
<p>It all depends on the level. I took level 5/6 this year, and I heard gold is around 34+. Not that this even matters to me anymore.</p>
<p>im only a freshman, so only latin I. But I know I either got at a least a 34 35 or 36 because we went over the answers the next day. Latin I answers are pretty obvious.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, Latin I was around a 36-37 for gold.</p>
<p>im praying to God i got a 36 now. My teacher also said this years test was more difficult than years past.</p>
<p>Well, it obviously changes from year to year. Good luck!</p>
<p>When I was in Latin I, gold was 35 right. Last year in Latin II, gold was (if I remember correctly) 36 right. This year I took the new Latin III exam, so obviously there is no other scale to base it on. It does vary every year though, so I would not worry too much.</p>
<p>I’m in Latin III and I’m quite certain I bombed it… I’d say a 20 if I’m lucky.</p>
<p>Did you take the new Latin III test or the prose test?</p>
<p>I took the III/Poetry.
I thought the translation was pretty tough</p>
<p>I took the regular III and did alright, I hope. The only problem with my school is that we use the Cambridge Program, so our learning is all off (we learned Future/Future Perfect this year x<em>x Just learned Perfect Active Infinitive) so some of the beginning Latin questions were iffy. Also, we don’t cover ANY mythology and not emphasize on culture, so some of that was hard (I know I got the sorceress who helped Jason wrong), but I think I aced the translation/comprehension questions. Maybe some type of award? Doubt it though T</em>T</p>
<p>I was glad that the story was longer than usual. It was easier than what we’ve had for the past two years. I got the Jason question and a couple other mythology questions wrong also. Other than that, I didn’t think it was too bad. I would not want to take the poety exam though. Translating poetry is probably the hardest thing we have to do in class, so I can’t imagine what the exam is like.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, all of our practice exams were the 07-04 (we spent two days preparing x<em>x) III Poetry exams. Holy heck I’m not looking forward to actually learning how to translate poetry T</em>T</p>
<p>Poetry isn’t that bad, once you learn scansion, but the word order and weird exceptions (tons of verb syncopation) are what get annoying</p>
<p>Yeah those practice exams had me freaked out because our class has no idea what scansion is xD</p>
<p>Poetry is actually easier, in my opinion. The cool thing is that some Latin poetry is very interesting/romantic. Nothing like reciting a Latin poem to your loved one :p.</p>
<p>I took the regular Latin III and I also use cambridge. Basically at my school latin isn’t a legit class so I haven’t really learned anything. I don’t even know what declensions are, I know the endings but not what the the nom. dat. acc. etc actually means in translation.</p>
<p>I like AP Latin Lit way better than AP Latin Vergil. Vergil is like long and boring and you are doing like the Aeneid all year long. It is like literally the death of me. I loved Catullus and Cicero. They were so much fun. Catullus poems rock!!!</p>
<p>I hate the nat lat. Latin V wasn’t bad this year though. My favorite part is that we can abbreviate and call it the nat lat and sound cool. no other language rhymes that well.</p>
<p>OMG do you guys remember Latin I cambridge. I did that like 5 years ago. I still can recite the first thing</p>
<p>"Caecilius est in horto. Caecilius in horto sedet. servus est in atrio. servius in atrio laborat. Metella est in atrio. Metella in atrio sedet. Quintus est in tablino. Quintus in tablino scribit. Cerberus est in via.</p>
<p>coquus est in culina. coquus in colina dormit. Cerberus intrat. Cerberus circumspectat. cibus est in mensa. canis salit. canis in mensa stat. Grumio sterit. canis latrat. Grumio surgit. coquus est iratus. “pestus! furcifer!” coquus clamat. Cerberus exit."</p>
<p>like seriously i just checked my latin one book and i got it correct.</p>