<p>After spending the last month studying with the REA Latin book, I've realized I'm pretty much wasting my time because I already know Latin grammar and forms like the back of my hand. Instead, I want to focus on improving my reading facility and speed. How should I go about doing this - just read a lot of Latin? Are there any authors whose writing is similar to that of the SAT II? Thanks for the help.</p>
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<p>Have you read an Ovid Reader? Nothing too poetic, but some passages from the Metamorphoses have great varieties of clauses/vocab. As for random prose…Cicero’s Pro Milone, Caesar’s Commentarii de Bello Civili, Augustus’s Res Gestae, Petronius’s Satyricon, Pliny’s letters…they’re all rather enjoyable and can help build speed and understanding. I am not so familiar with the Subject Test, but passages from those texts helped me in the classroom and on the National Latin Exam. You might also want to construct some of your own sentences, which is painstaking but really helps nail in the grammar. :)</p>
<p>Yay, a response! Thanks Xaari 
I’ll be sure to check those out.</p>
<p>BTW, I looked at the curve in the official guide and it looks like it’s better than we thought. -8 was an 800.</p>
<p>Oh yes! I apologize for that. I borrowed the CB Subject Test book from the library just yesterday and noticed the nice curve. Then again, there were also more questions than I originally thought too. Latin is still the most difficult language test, though, since it has the highest percentile for 800s. I’m sure it will not pose a problem for you in the least. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>(Also, not meaning to bump this up, but I don’t know how else to contact you. Apparently your inbox quota is full so I cannot reply unless you clear some of it.) :)</p>
<p>Oops, sorry. Cleared some space :)</p>