Latin Placement Exam

A student interested in testing into the second level of Latin, must make arrangements to take the placement exam in the Spring of their eighth grade year. The test is offered every May and covers the major grammatical and vocabulary points taught in our level one course.The test consists of one hundred objective items broken down into the following parts:

Part 1: READING IN LATIN with 15 items seeking information found in the story and 15 items asking for the identification of specific grammatical, lexical and cultural elements found in the story.
Part 2: GRAMMAR (30 ITEMS)
Part 3: VOCABULARY (26 ITEMS)
Part 4: DERIVATIVES (10 ITEMS based on the vocabulary studied in Latin One)
Part 5: CULTURE (10 ITEMS)

To prepare for Exam, a student should have mastered:

  1. the present, imperfect, and perfect tense forms of all regular Latin verbs in all four conjugations;
  2. the present, imperfect, and perfect tense forms ESSE, POSSE, VELLE, NOLLE, FERRE, IRE.;
  3. the uses of INFINITIVES;
  4. the formation and uses of the PRINCIPAL PARTS OF VERBS;
  5. IMPERATIVE forms of verbs;
  6. the formation and uses of all case forms of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd DECLENSION NOUNS;
  7. the formation and agreement of FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSION ADJECTIVES;
  8. the formation and agreement of THIRD DECLENSION ADJECTIVES.

The Culture items tested are taken from the following areas:

  1. the Roman Family
  2. Roman Clothing
  3. Treatrnents of slaves
  4. Aeneas
  5. Roman housing both in the city and in the country
  6. Major Gods and Goddesses
  7. the Founding of Rome
  8. The Kings of Rome
  9. Legendary Heroes of Early Rome (Horatius, Mucius Scaevola, Cloelia, Cincinnatus)
  10. Roman travel on land and sea
  11. The Early Republic
  12. the Roman World (geographic features and major provinces)

The Vocabulary items are drawn from the words used in Chapters 1 through 21 of ECCE ROMANI, Book I. Sample lists will be sent if required.

For a student to pass into CP Latin Two, she must pass the exam with a minimum score of 70%. For a student to pass into Honors Latin Two she must pass with a score of no lower than 88%.