Explains the structure of the course, including its purpose and aims and information on the skills, knowledge and understanding that will be developed.

Session 2026-27 onwards

• Higher Latin course specification June 2026

Session 2025-26

• Higher Latin course specification July 2018

Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

• Examples of candidate evidence with commentaries

Webinar (recording)

Course Assessment 19 November 2024

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Overview of course assessment from session 2018-19

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Audio Presentation

• Overview of Course Assessment May 2018 (18 minutes)

Changes to Understanding Standards materials

• Changes to published Understanding Standards materials for all subjects

Please note: Understanding Standards materials are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain up to date.

Provides information on the performance of candidates - which is useful to teachers, lecturers and assessors in their preparation of candidates for future assessment.

Course Reports

• 2025 Higher Latin course report October 2025
• 2024 Higher Latin course report September 2024
• 2023 Higher Latin course report October 2023

Verification Reports

• Latin: quality assurance - external verification

• Higher Latin prescribed text (209 KB)
• Higher Latin prescribed text The Poems of Catullus (363 KB)
• Higher Latin prescribed text Ovid Metamorphoses IV and VIII (362 KB)
• Higher Latin prescribed text Virgil Aeneid I IV and  VI (358 KB)
• Higher Latin prescribed text Pliny Letters (348 KB)
• Higher Latin prescribed text Cicero In Verrem V (828 KB) (352 KB)