Basque PAU Latin II study guide
Basque PAU Latin II · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Euskadiko Unibertsitatera Sartzeko Ebaluazioa (EvAU) Latin II examination is the Latin component of the university entrance assessment taken by students in the Basque Country who have followed the Latin II track in Bachillerato. It exists to show that a candidate can work with authentic Latin texts - classical prose and verse - and can explain what those texts mean, how their grammar holds together, and where they sit in Roman literary culture. The Basque PAU Latin II study guide has 6 sections and about 2,241 words.
01Translation of a Latin prose or verse text into Basque or Spanish
Domain 1 tests your ability to turn a Latin prose or verse passage into accurate, idiomatic Basque or Spanish. In the Basque PAU Latin II paper the translation usually carries the largest single weighting, and candidates choose between a prose option (often Caesar, Cicero, Sallust or Livy) and a verse option (often Virgil, Ovid or Horace).
429 words, about 2 min02Morphological and syntactic analysis of the translated text
Domain 2 tests parsing and syntactic labelling of words or phrases taken from the passage you have just translated. You may be asked for case, number and gender; tense, mood and voice; the function of a noun in its clause; the type of subordinate clause; or the name of a construction.
381 words, about 2 min03Lexicon and semantics: meaning in context, etymology and Latin roots
Domain 3 asks for the meaning of a word or expression as it functions in the passage, and for its semantic family: etymology, Latin root, and reflexes in Basque, Spanish, French or English. The examiners reward context-sensitive translation, not the first dictionary gloss.
343 words, about 2 min04Literary and cultural commentary: genre, author, work and context
Domain 4 asks you to situate a passage in its genre, author, work and historical context, and to comment on style, theme and cultural function. In the Basque PAU Latin II paper this is often a short-answer question attached to the translation: identify the author and work, name the genre, date the text roughly, and explain one or two features that the passage illustrates.
355 words, about 2 min05Textual criticism, transmission of texts, Latin metrics and prosody
Domain 5 divides into two possible skills. Textual criticism asks how a Latin text reached us: manuscripts, archetypes, variants, stemmata and editorial choices.
365 words, about 2 min06Latin language competence: grammar, syntax and vocabulary for set authors
Domain 6 tests the grammar, syntax and vocabulary you need to read the set authors. It is not a separate syllabus: the questions apply to the same Caesar, Cicero, Virgil or Ovid passage, but they may ask you to complete a paradigm, identify a form, transform a sentence, or explain a construction.
368 words, about 2 min