• hi all, just finnished my third and final latin GCSE this afternoon, and even though i only know approx. 5% of the vocab you need to know, i could answer basaically all the questions confidently.
  
  all you have to do to pass (C or above) is learn the english translations for the set texts for the prose and literature exams, and learn basic vocab for the unprepared comprehension exam. even though the grade boundaries are high compared to some subjects, it is still possible to get a high mark with little work.
  
• what i meant by easy is that for the GCSE at least you could probably get a C or above just by learning the english translations for each piece of text. you dont really need the latin, it would help, but not essential. for example, the questions are like 'where did person X come from?' what was person X doing?' now if you had read the english translation and learn it semi-off by heart and knew a bit of the background to the story you could answer about 90% of the questions.
  
  anyway, thats how it worked out for me :)

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