National Latin Exam

[villageidiot111]

My school had the NLE today. I took the level 4 prose test, and I fairly sure I got a gold medal on it.

Anybody else here in Latin take it?

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

It's been so long since I took Latin that all I remember is aquilam = eagle. I think.

Oh, and something about declensions. I forgot everything.... sigh.

 

[thehstrybean]

Si Pazzi Quazi Romani...
Or somethin like that...I take German...
Beware the Ides of March...

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

Et tu Brute!

 

[Rufus12]

For me it's on Friday. Review for it is on Thursday. I hope I get a gold medal too.

 

[God On Alcohol]

OMG I WON THE LOTTERY

 

[ts3433]

Tomorrow for me; level 2. Nothing special because of the low difficulty at these levels, even though people at my high school were raising a fuss when I got perfect on level 1 (freshman Latin) last year.

 

[Rufus12]

Originally posted by: ts3433
Tomorrow for me; level 2. Nothing special because of the low difficulty at these levels, even though people at my high school were raising a fuss when I got perfect on level 1 (freshman Latin) last year.

I'm doing the Latin 1 exam. How hard was it? Was it just on the basics, Declensions, conjugations, infinitives, etc.?

 

[ts3433]

Originally posted by: Rufus12

Originally posted by: ts3433
Tomorrow for me; level 2. Nothing special because of the low difficulty at these levels, even though people at my high school were raising a fuss when I got perfect on level 1 (freshman Latin) last year.

I'm doing the Latin 1 exam. How hard was it? Was it just on the basics, Declensions, conjugations, infinitives, etc.?

I remember it covering topics up to Chapter 15 or so of Wheelock (we did to 20 that year); however, it also asks some culture questions from the Cambridge "Latin For Americans" (IIRC) book (mythology, daily life) and has a short passage with 8 or so comprehension questions. (The exam itself is actually based on the Cambridge method, not Wheelock.)

Practice exams in PDF format

 

[Udel]

Lecetne mihi eri ad latrinam. All I remember is that got me out of that lousy class.

 

[thehstrybean]

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis
exponebantur ad necem.

Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota
monax materiam possit materiari?

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.

 

[puffff]

tu est ancilla

thats about all i remember from latin

 

[Oil]

Originally posted by: puffff
tu est ancilla

thats about all i remember from latin

You are a slave girl?

 

[bersl2]

In my time taking the NLE, if you discount the Intro level below Level I, I missed a grand total of one question for I-IV: Who was the first Consul of Rome? So I'd like to give a "****** you" to Brutus---no, the other Brutus.

Anyway, I surely would have gotten another perfect had I taken the equivalent of Latin V my senior year, but I had other requirements to satisfy; and I would be minoring in Classics, except that I go to a tech school, and apparently the history of a great civilization of engineers is unimportant enough to not have any such study whatsoever.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: thehstrybean
Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?

Is that a fold in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?
1 dictionary lookup: volumen

Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis
exponebantur ad necem.

Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.

If Caesar were [still] alive, you would have some sense knocked into you by an oar (lit.: you would be given to the oar---though, I think they would have expressed that by the dative, and not ad + accusative---but this doesn't make much sense otherwise).
Several dictionary lookups: remum, dareris (too many meanings of dare)

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota
monax materiam possit materiari?

Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est.

I say, that's a lot of grain. (sine contextu absurdum est!)
2 dictionary lookups: aio, fumentorum

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: OSx86

Originally posted by: puffff
tu est ancilla

thats about all i remember from latin

You are a slave girl?

No that makes no sense lol.

Tu and Ancilla are both in the nominative case. It would read something like "You the slave girl is"

Im taking the Level V Poetry exam tomorrow. After multiple practice tests, i have determined that it is near impossible. If i got the vocab, i could do it, but they give you some really obscure passages.

Im in AP Latin Literature (Last year i was in AP Vergil) and am translating Catullus, and Ovid.

sine contextu absurdum est!

Is that something like "Without the context/words it is impossible/absurd".

Now since i am in Virginia, the CAV (State Latin Exam) is actually impossible. You dont compete against a score, you compete against the actual students in the state. Additionally, the syntax and other stuff you need to know are much much more complex. I dont look forward to that test (I would rather take the AP test than the CAV).

-Kevin

 

[Gamingphreek]

ou would have some sense knocked into you by an oar (lit.: you would be given to the oar---though, I think they would have expressed that by the dative, and not ad + accusative---but this doesn't make much sense otherwise).

Ad wouldn't work there. I think the OP might have meant to type "ab" so you can translate it as an Ablative of Agent.

-Kevin

 

[Random Variable]

I don't remember such a test.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

sine contextu absurdum est!

Is that something like "Without the context/words it is impossible/absurd".

Yeah. Because "grain" or "crops" is how you translate "frumentorum", and given the first sentence I translated, I expected the rest to be other modern witticisms in disguise, but clearly that last one violates that assertion (unless someone knows something I don't).

Now since i am in Virginia, the CAV (State Latin Exam) is actually impossible. You dont compete against a score, you compete against the actual students in the state. Additionally, the syntax and other stuff you need to know are much much more complex. I dont look forward to that test (I would rather take the AP test than the CAV).

-Kevin

You have a state exam for Latin? Nice.

What kind of difficult syntax? Syntax is usually the least of my problems; the hard part is that Latin words are too overloaded with similar but very different definitions. Chalk it up to immaturity in the language.

 

[S Freud]

Man, I'm glad that I never had to take a state wide latin test, I would have met my certain doom at that test. All I had to do was take the two years of foriegn language to get into a four year university. WHEW

What happens if you don't pass?

 

[intogamer]

I took it last yr... sucked...

Didn't bother this year

Latin -_-