Half language, half literature.

• You will take one language paper:

Unseen Translation and Comprehension: 1 hour 30 minutes (100 marks)

A story taken from Greek myth and history, with any vocabulary that is not on the prescribed GCSE vocabulary glossed.

• And two literature papers, one prose and one verse. Both are 1 hour (50 marks each) and contain a variety of simple comprehension and translation questions, analysis of short passages of the Greek and a mini-essay on the whole text. You will have prepared and learnt everything on the paper very thoroughly, so there shouldn't be anything difficult or surprising.

If you would like to see examples of the papers, see the OCR website for the Specimen Assessment Materials.

We prefer the term 'immortal'...

The skills developed by learning Greek are applicable to an incredibly broad array of careers and undergraduate degrees. Studying literature teaches skills of analysis and evaluation as well as compassion and empathy, the historical content promotes objectivity and perspective, and learning the language encourages logic, order, discipline, structure, and precision. In other words, this subject will train your brain and teach you how to think. And that is why it is so highly valued by both admissions departments and employers:

Perhaps the single most important quality for a senior executive is the ability to communicate clearly and succinctly. I can think of no better way to learn these skills than by the study of Classics.

Sir Anthony Cleaver, former Chair of IBM

What Classics has always done is just teach people how to think.

Richard Dawkins

To find out more, this video is an excellent argument for the value of Latin, much of which is also applicable to Classical Greek.