Young Reporter My Gratin IGCSE experience- Akshay Phian Hampton School
At the September of 2022 I began the gratin IGCSE course, initially coming from the now abolished common entrance Latin examinations, I was told that I would walk through the course with minimal effort. That was very wrong. With both Latin and ancient Greek examinations having 3 papers for each exam ‘language, prose literature and verse literature’, I was greeted with a new style of exam I had never come across before, Latin literature. Here the candidate would be required to learn ‘off by heart’ large sections of either 2 or three set texts. The size of the sections that would be required to be learnt can vary, but a single section of a set text can peak at over 500 lines of Latin translation, the much of the Latin text would have to be memorised too as a myriad of style and content points that can be found in each line; style points are the Latin equivalent of literary techniques whereas content points are evaluations of the language and message of a certain phrase or word which could possess greater meaning within the story, are required to be learned for the answering of 4,8 and 10 marker questions.
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At the September of 2022 I began the gratin IGCSE course, initially coming from the now abolished common entrance Latin examinations, I was told that I would walk through the course with minimal effort. That was very wrong. With both Latin and ancient Greek examinations having 3 papers for each exam ‘language, prose literature and verse literature’, I was greeted with a new style of exam I had never come across before, Latin literature. Here the candidate would be required to learn ‘off by heart’ large sections of either 2 or three set texts. The size of the sections that would be required to be learnt can vary, but a single section of a set text can peak at over 500 lines of Latin translation, the much of the Latin text would have to be memorised too as a myriad of style and content points that can be found in each line; style points are the Latin equivalent of literary techniques whereas content points are evaluations of the language and message of a certain phrase or word which could possess greater meaning within the story, are required to be learned for the answering of 4,8 and 10 marker questions.
