Latin
A Level Latin
About A Level Latin
Entry Requirements: A minimum Grade 6 in GCSE Latin to study this subject at A Level. If you enjoyed developing your linguistic skills in Latin (and English) at GCSE level and want to discover more about the ancient world through Roman Literature, then this is the course for you.
Course Content and Assessment:
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Assessment (OCR) |
Course Content |
Weighting |
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Unseen Translation (01) 100 marks 1 hour 45 minutes |
Section A: Unseen prose translation (50 marks) Section B: Unseen verse translation and scanning of two lines of verse (50 marks) |
33% of A Level |
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Prose Composition or Comprehension (02) 50 marks 1 hour 15 minutes |
Either: (We would prepare students for this section) Section A: Comprehension on an unseen prose translation, including questions on grammar. Or: Section B: Prose composition from English into Latin |
17% of A Level |
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Prose Literature (03) 75 marks 2 hours |
Questions on the set texts covered, including a question which draws upon additional reading in English to support the prescribed literature. Answers will require extended writing on questions of content, style and social context. |
25% of A Level |
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Verse Literature (04) 75 marks 2 hours |
As above |
25% of A Level |
Set texts may include Cicero’s Pro Milone, Tacitus’s Annals or Seneca’s Letters for the prose literature unit, and Virgil’s Aeneid or poems by Catullus for the verse literature unit.
Higher Education and Careers:
Latin combines well with a wide range of other courses, especially Modern Foreign Languages, English and Mathematics and is very highly regarded by a variety of university courses. It also provides a good balance of skills whether studying arts or sciences. Students of Latin go on to study a range of subjects at university, from Classics to Law and Medicine. Classics graduates are highly regarded by employers and Classicists go on to pursue careers in Law, Business, Accountancy, Teaching, Journalism and Archaeology.
