Latin
SAT Subject Test in Latin Practice
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Introduction
This test measures your ability to read Latin. It is recommended that you have two to four years of Latin in high school, or a gradual development of competence in sight-reading Latin over a period of years.
Test Basics
| Points | Minutes | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| 200-800 | 60 | 70-75 |
Topics on the Test
| Skills Measured | |
|---|---|
| ≈30% |
Grammar and syntax Selection of appropriate grammatical forms of Latin words |
| ≈5% |
Derivatives Choice of Latin words from which English words are derived |
| ≈65% |
Translation & Reading comprehension Translation of Latin into English; completion of Latin sentences; selection of alternate ways of expressing thoughts in Latin. Reading comprehension questions based on three to five short passages of prose or poetry. (One or two poetry passages requiring scanning of the first four feet of a line of dactylic hexameter verse or determining the number of elisions in a line.) |
