Érettségi Latin study plan

Recite all five declension paradigms from memory, including the ablative singular and genitive plural of each, and write them out without looking at a table.

Conjugate one regular verb of each conjugation (amare, monere, legere, audire, capere) in the present, imperfect and future indicative active, marking the stem vowel changes aloud.

List the principal parts of 60 high-frequency verbs and sort them into the four conjugations by infinitive ending.

Build a personal vocabulary log of 150 words grouped by exam topic (politics, war, religion, daily life) and test yourself on 50 of them at the end of the week.

Identify the case and number of 40 inflected noun forms taken from a short prose passage, writing the dictionary entry next to each.

Parse and translate 30 sentences that each contain one subordinate clause, naming the clause type (cum, quod, ut, ne, si, postquam) and the mood rule that governs it.

Convert 15 active sentences into passive and back, keeping tense and person correct, to internalise the passive personal endings.

Drill the irregular verbs esse, posse, velle, nolle, malle, ferre, ire and fieri across present, imperfect and future, writing each form from memory.

Annotate one continuous prose text of about 120 words by underlining every subject, circling every finite verb and bracketing every subordinate clause.

Explain in writing why each of 10 given subjunctives is subjunctive, citing the governing construction.

Translate one continuous prose passage of 150-180 words into fluent Hungarian in 45 minutes without a dictionary, then check it against a dictionary and log every lexical error.

Identify and correctly render 20 set idioms and phrases (e.g. bellum gerere, consilium capere, in potestatem redigere, operam dare) inside running text.

Recognise 25 common prose connectives and discourse markers (tamen, igitur, enim, autem, quamquam, praeterea) and translate each in context rather than in isolation.

Write a 100-word summary in Hungarian of the passage's argument, naming the main subject, action and outcome.

Re-read your translation after one day and correct at least three places where Latin word order led you into a Hungarian calque.

Translate two unseen prose passages of 150 words each under timed conditions (45 minutes each), applying a fixed five-step reading routine: verb hunt, clause division, case roles, word-order reconstruction, idiomatic rendering.

Analyse 20 participial constructions, distinguishing participium coniunctum, ablative absolute and gerundive of obligation, and translate each three different acceptable ways.

Convert 10 direct-speech sentences into indirect speech with accusative-and-infinitive and correct tense sequencing, and back again.

Explain the function of every ablative in a 100-word passage, labelling each as instrumental, temporal, locative, comparative, absolute or separative.

Self-mark both timed translations against a model and record error types in a tally (case, mood, vocabulary, word order).

Scan and read aloud 200 lines of Latin hexameter, marking every dactyl and spondee and the main caesura in each line.

Translate 60 lines of narrative epic (Vergil or Ovid) into Hungarian, keeping the poetic word order comprehensible without flattening the sense.

Identify and translate 15 poetic figures and tropes in context (hyperbaton, anastrophe, chiasmus, apostrophe, metonymy, synecdoche).

Build a poetry-specific glossary of 80 words that differ in meaning or frequency from prose usage (e.g. aequor, puppis, ensis, arma, fata).

Compare two Hungarian renderings of the same 10 Latin lines and justify which is more faithful and which more idiomatic.

Translate one complete elegiac or lyric passage of 40 lines, checking pentameter and lyric metres line by line.

Place 20 named authors and works on a timeline from the third century BC to the second century AD, stating genre and approximate date.

Describe in writing the composition and powers of five Roman institutions (consulship, senate, tribunate, censorship, provincial governorship) and give one historical example of each in action.

Explain 15 items of daily-life and religious vocabulary (domus, forum, balneum, ludi, pontifex, augur, triumphus) with the Roman practice behind each word.

Answer 30 short factual questions on Roman history and civilisation from memory and correct them against a reference.

Summarise the plot, genre and central themes of six set authors (e.g. Caesar, Cicero, Sallust, Vergil, Horace, Ovid) in 60 words each, in Hungarian.

Trace the Hungarian reception of at least four Latin authors, naming a translator, an adaptation or an idiom that entered Hungarian from each.

Translate one 150-word prose passage and one 40-line poetry passage on the same day to practise switching register.

Explain 10 Latin phrases that survive as Hungarian or European set expressions (e.g. alea iacta est, carpe diem, panem et circenses) with their original context.

Draft a 200-word Hungarian essay connecting one Latin text to its later Hungarian afterlife, citing specific lines.

Sit two full mock exams under real time limits, covering one prose translation, one poetry translation, morphology parsing and syntax analysis.

Mark each mock against a rubric and produce a prioritised list of the five weakest points remaining.

Re-drill only those five weak points with 30 targeted items each, checking answers immediately.

Recite the irregular-verb and declension tables once more from memory as a final consolidation.

Write a one-page exam-day routine covering time allocation per section, order of attack and a fallback strategy for unknown vocabulary.