AP Latin
Translate and analyze Vergil’s Aeneid and Caesar’s Gallic War in the original Latin.
How this exam works. Multiple choice on sight and syllabus passages, then free response: a literal translation of a required passage, a short analytical essay, and short-answer questions on Vergil and Caesar.
Vocabulary, forms and syntax, plus the content of the required Vergil and Caesar readings — all of which the translation and analysis questions assume you already have.
The act of translating a passage accurately under time pressure, which is a separate skill from knowing the words.
What to do instead. Translate a few lines of the syllabus text every day, in writing, and check against a literal translation. Speed comes from doing it, not from recognizing vocabulary faster.