Andalusia PAU Latin II

It is the Latin paper within the university entrance assessment for students in Andalusia. A good mark contributes to the admission score for degrees such as Classical Philology, History, Humanities or Law. It is an academic exam, not a professional licence, and this page is independent of the administering bodies.

You translate a Latin prose passage into Spanish, analyse its morphosyntax and comment on vocabulary, then answer questions on a Latin literary text and on authors, genres, Roman culture and Latin word formation. Translation dominates the mark, so it deserves most of your practice time.

The official body publishes the current structure, timing and scoring for each sitting, and these details can be adjusted between years. Check the official Andalusia university district or regional education site for the version that applies to your year rather than relying on older summaries.

It is adapted or selected prose, usually narrative or historical, with standard subordinate clauses and common vocabulary. The difficulty lies in speed and accuracy under time pressure, not in rare constructions. Regular timed translation of short passages is the most effective preparation.

Resit and improvement rules are set by the official bodies and can vary by year and by call. Consult the current regulations on the official site. In practice, candidates often sit the exam again in a later call to raise their admission score, so plan your study schedule with that possibility in mind.

Start with translation: cases, verb morphology and clause recognition applied to real sentences. Add vocabulary drawn from the passages you translate. Only then drill the literary and cultural content, because those answers are quicker to memorise and easier to lose marks on through vague wording.

The common failures are mistranslating case functions, ignoring agreement, guessing at unknown words instead of using context, and writing vague literary commentary without naming authors, works or features. In the analysis section, labelling a form without explaining its function in the sentence also costs marks.

Translate under timed conditions, then mark your own version against a reliable model and list every error by type: case, tense, vocabulary, clause. Re-translate the same passage a week later. This targeted recycling fixes recurring mistakes far better than reading many translations passively.

No. Learn a compact framework: the main genres, their representative authors and works, and a few defining features of each. Roman culture questions reward precise, relevant detail, not exhaustive lists. Link each author to a genre and a period so the information stays usable in an exam answer.