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    A-Level Latin Mid-A-level Mock examination for Year 12 Summer 2020.

    There are two mid A-level Mock exams for Latin, each lasting one hour and 30 minutes.

    You will receive a percentage score for each paper so that they are equally weighted. Your final mark will be the average of the two scores.

     Full details of the A level specification can be found here: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/220734-specification-accredited-a-level-gce-latin-h443.pdf

    1. Language Exam: 85 marks.

    Your mock will be based on the A-level Language Paper 1 (443/01), with slightly shorter passages.

    You will be asked to translate a prose passage from Livy (40 marks) and a verse passage from Ovid (40 marks). You will also be asked to scan two lines of Ovid (Hexameter or Elegiac Couplet) (5 marks). Total: 85 marks.

    How to prepare:

    i) Vocabulary:

    There is no set list for this exam, but you should make sure you have an in-depth knowledge of the AS list and that you have developed your vocabulary beyond this through your reading of Livy and Ovid. Use the KES Classics A-level Latin Quizlets as well as the AS list https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/221507-as-level-gce-latin-h043-defined-vocabulary-list.pdf.

    ii) Grammar:

    You have now covered all key aspects of Latin accidence and syntax, so revise by re-reading Taylor’s Latin Beyond GCSE and familiarising yourself with Morwood’s Oxford Latin Grammar.

    Below is OCR’s summary of Accidence and Syntax which you can use as a check-list.

    Accidence

    • Nouns of all standard types, together with bos, domus, Iuppiter and vis.
    • Adjectives of all standard types, from all three declensions, including dives, pauper and vetus.
    • Adverbs.
    • Comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
    • Pronouns and pronominal adjectives and related forms.
    • Verbs of all standard types from all conjugations in all moods, voices and tenses, together with deponent, semi-deponent, defective, irregular and impersonal verbs including the impersonal passive of intransitive verbs.
    • Compound verbs of regular formation using all the common prefixes, including associated consonant and vowel changes, and where the prefix retains its normal meaning.
    • Cardinal numbers 1–1000 and ordinal numbers 1st – 10th.
    • Uses of prepositions.

    Syntax

    • Standard patterns of case usage.
    • Negation.
    • Direct statement, question (including deliberative) and command.
    • Prohibitions, exhortations and wishes.
    • Uses of the infinitive (as subject, as complement, prolative, historic).
    • Uses of the participle (including ablative absolute).
    • Uses of the subjunctive (e.g. potential, generic).
    • Comparison (including the ablative of comparison).
    • Uses of the gerund and gerundive (including the gerundive of obligation).
    • Constructions using quominus and quin Use of dum and dummodo to mean ‘provided that’.
    • Subordinate clauses
      • Indirect statement (including extended oratio obliqua), question, command and prohibition
      • Description (relative clauses, including common uses with the subjunctive)
      • Purpose (including uses of the gerund and gerundive)
      • Result (including the use of the comparative with quam ut)
      • Conditional Causal
      • Temporal Subordinate clauses within indirect speech
      • Fearing, prevention and precaution
      • Concessive
      • Comparative

     

    i) Reading passages:

    You should also revise by re-reading passages you have already encountered and by work on your weekly translation exercises so that you become familiar with the style of your set authors. Matthew Owen’s two books, Prose Unseens for A-level and Ovid Unseens are excellent resources which we use for setting your unseens.

    2. Literature Exam: 50 marks.

    Your mock will be divided equally between the two set texts:

    • Cicero Philippic II 44-50 ( … viri tui similis esses).

    (You will not be tested on the rest of the set text in the Year 12 Mock)

    • Virgil, Aeneid XI 1-63.

    (You will not be tested on the rest of the set text in the Year 12 Mock)

    There are 25 marks for each set text:

    • Translation of a short passage from the text you have studied [5 marks].
    • One long question requiring you to refer to the content and style of a passage from your set text which will be printed in the paper [15 marks].
    • Short questions on the context or content of this passage [5 marks].