A Level Latin
Course summary
Our course is made of four components: Unseen Translation, Prose Composition or Comprehension, Prose Literature, and Verse Literature. For students sitting the exam in 2025 and 2026, Prose Literature will include excerpts from Cicero’s Pro Caelio, Tacitus’ Annals (Books 12-14) and Pliny’s Letters, while Verse Literature will include excerpts from Virgil’s Aeneid (Book 2), Juvenal’s Satires, and Ovid’s Fasti (Book 2). For Unseen Translation, unseen prose will include excerpts from Livy, while unseen verse will include excerpts from Ovid. Prose Composition or Comprehension will include translation of or comprehension and grammar questions on an unseen prose text.
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Assessment
You will build knowledge of vocabulary and linguistic structures through reading and studying prose and verse texts in Latin and study texts written by a range of prose authors and the verse unseen author to develop linguistic competence. Unseen Translation (01) • 100 marks; 1 hour 45 minutes; written paper; 33% of total A Level. Prose Composition or Comprehension (02) • 50 marks; 1 hour 15 minutes; written paper; 17% of total A Level. • You will study two Latin Prose Literature set texts in depth and also study additional literature in translation in order to understand the context from which the set texts have been taken. Prose Literature (03) • 75 marks; 2 hours; written paper; 25% of total A Level • Learners study two Latin Verse Literature set texts in depth. Learners also study additional literature in translation in order to understand the context from which the set texts have been taken. Verse Literature (04) • 75 marks; 2 hours; written paper; 25% of total A Level.
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