SACE Stage 2 Latin (continuers) study guide
SACE Stage 2 Latin (continuers) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Latin (continuers) is a Stage 2 subject within the South Australian Certificate of Education, the senior secondary qualification administered by the SACE Board of South Australia. It sits in the board's languages suite of continuers-level subjects, which are designed for students who have already built a sustained foundation in the language before Stage 2. Because it is a Stage 2 subject, it is typically taken in the final year of schooling and contributes to the 200 credits required for the SACE. The subject is assessed through two equally weighted components: school assessment, worth 50 per cent, and external assessment, worth 50 per cent. Topics on this exam: School assessment and External assessment. The SACE Stage 2 Latin (continuers) study guide has 2 sections and about 792 words.
01School Assessment: Building the Skills That Are Marked
School assessment in SACE Stage 2 Latin continuers is where your reading, translation and commentary skills are built and first judged, so it rewards steady habits rather than last-minute cramming. The concepts you must command are: accidence (declensions, conjugations, irregular verbs such as esse , posse , ferre , ire , velle ), syntax (case usage, subordinate clause types, indirect statement, purpose and result clauses, conditional sentences, gerunds and gerundives), vocabulary in context , translation technique , and literary commentary on the set text - theme, characterisation, structure, and the effect of stylistic devices such as anaphora, chiasmus, hyperbaton, alliteration and metaphor.
394 words, about 2 min02External Assessment: Translation and Commentary Under Exam Conditions
The external assessment examines the same skills as school assessment but under time pressure and without teacher scaffolding. Expect an unseen passage for translation, questions on the prescribed text requiring close reading, and commentary tasks that ask you to discuss style, characterisation and theme with supporting evidence.
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