AP Latin Vergil and Literature Exams w/CD-ROM (REA)The Best Test Prep for (Advanced Placement (AP) Test Preparation) - Softcover

Palma, Ronald B.; Benediktson Ph.D., D. Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738602930 ISBN 13: 9780738602936

Publisher: Research & Education Association, 2007

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Excelling on the AP Latin Exam

 

If you’re looking for a true edge on Test Day . . .

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REA gives you all the tools you’ll need to master the Advanced Placement  Examinations in Latin for both Literature and Vergil, to wit:

 

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¦ A systematic, AP curriculum-based approach to mastering grammar and syntax.

¦ Four full-length, true-to-format practice exams—two that emulate the AP Latin Literature Exam, two modeled after the AP Latin: Vergil Exam—that will prepare you for the actual AP exam like no other book.

¦ Full explanations of every practice-exam answer.

¦ Comprehensive index that speeds specific referencing.

 

In preparing this book, REA has thoroughly aligned our thinking with that of the AP Latin Development Committee. In fact, we expect that many AP instructors will want to use this book to supplement their classroom text and lectures precisely because it so comprehensively supports specific curriculum objectives for the AP course and exam.

 

ABOUT REA’s TESTware®

 

One practice test for both the AP Latin: Vergil and the AP Latin Literature is included in two formats: in printed format in this book, and in TESTware® format on the enclosed CD. We strongly recommend that you begin your preparation with the TESTware® practice exams. The software provides the added benefits of automatic, accurate scoring and enforced time conditions. The content and format of the actual AP Latin exams are faithfully mirrored.

 

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General Content and Format of the AP Latin Exam

 

Content of the AP Latin Exam

 

For at least the past four years (2002–2005), the number of students taking the AP Latin Exam has increased and now averages well over 7,000 per year.1 Whether or not this statistic indicates that more students are studying Latin, it does indicate that more students are studying Latin at the college level while in high school. AP Latin Exams test the proficiency of high school Latin students when compared to college students who have taken a fourth- to sixth-semester Latin course. (Traditionally, one semester of college study has been approximately equivalent to one year of high school study.) If you are reading this book, it is likely that you are among the high-achieving students who either want to demonstrate their facility with the Latin language at the end of their study or who intend to continue studying Latin in college. The focus of this book is to help you to prepare for the AP Latin Exam: to assess and expand not only your general skills of comprehending, translating, and analyzing Latin, but also to help you to understand and appreciate the importance of the ability to write coherently and persuasively in English.

 

Since 1994, there have been two different AP Latin exams available, one that evaluates your knowledge of Vergil’s Aeneid and the other, Latin Literature, that assesses your preparation of one of three combinations of authors. Each of the latter exams includes the poems of Catullus, i.e., Catullus-Cicero, Catullus-Horace, and Catullus-Ovid. Both the AP Vergil and the AP Latin Literature exams may be taken in the same year; however, special arrangements need to be made

with your school to schedule the second exam.2 The specific content and format of both the Vergil and Latin Literature Exams are described in greater detail in succeeding chapters of this book. The scoring of the exam is explained at the end.

 

Format of the AP Latin Exam

 

The AP Latin Exam, the format of which was changed in 1999, now consists of two parts: a multiple-choice section (40 percent) and a free-response section (60percent). The multiple-choice section, which is administered fi rst, consists of 50 multiple-choice questions over three sight passages of prose and poetry and one syllabus-based passage, that is, one passage from the lines or poems that you have prepared in Latin. The sight readings of the multiple-choice section are common to the two exams, and the syllabus-based passage comes from either Vergil or Catullus, as appropriate. You have 60 minutes for this part. The free-response section consists of five questions for Vergil and six for Latin Literature, the latter consisting of three on Catullus and three on the choice author Cicero, Horace, or Ovid. These questions, which consist of translations, long and short essays, and discussions of background or short identifications, evaluate your preparation of the assigned syllabus. Those portions of the Aeneid and of Cicero’s De Amicitia not prepared in Latin must be read in English. You are given one hour and 45 minutes for the free-response section, plus a 15-minute “reading period,” during which you may organize your thinking and plan your answers. The total time for the AP Latin Exam is three hours, plus about one-half hour of administrative and break time. Be aware that, periodically, changes are made to the content or format of the AP Latin Exam. For instance, in the Cicero syllabus the Pro Caelio has been replaced for the 2007 exam with the Pro Archia Poeta and selections from the De Amicitia (for specific information, see Chapter 3). Every five years

or so, the entire AP Latin Exam, both Vergil and Latin Literature, is released and published for reference by students and teachers.

 

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Edition details

• Publisher: Research & Education Association
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0738602930
• ISBN 13: 9780738602936
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720