Announcement

General Information

Application

Syllabi Entire (711KB) see below for individual syllabi

Scholarship Opportunities

Previous Exams

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ACL/NJCL NATIONAL GREEK EXAMINATION

The next National Greek Examination will be administered Monday-Saturday, 12-17 March 2001. Entrants will pay $3.00 for each examination chosen from the battery. An entrant, however, may not cross levels in Attic Greek, i.e. take both a first-year and a second-year Attic examination, but s/he may take an Attic and a non-Attic examination, Intermediate Attic and Odyssey examination, so long as s/he pays $3.00 for each examination taken. In addition, the Attic Prose exam may be taken for two years in a row. Applications are available on line in pdf format. Print and mail in.

Applications will be accepted only from teachers; others should call, before ordering, to Dr. Deb Davies, explaining special circumstances. Applications must be postmarked no later than Monday, 8 January 2001. The entry application from the teacher should include total payment. If there is no alternative and the NGE office must bill a school system, a handling fee of $6.00 will be added to the bill.

Copies of the 2001 National Greek Examination will be mailed by the beginning of March to the designated examiner, but not to the teacher who mailed the application. If the examinations are not received by Friday, 2 March 2001, please contact Deb Davies.

Schools which, for reasons of vacation or other schedule conflicts, wish to administer the examinations during the week of 19 February 2001, should note on the application so that the NGE office will know when to expect the answer sheets back. Answer sheets must be postmarked no later than Monday, 19 March 2001.

General Information

High-school and college/university students, in the United States and Canada or abroad, enrolled in 1st year (elementary), 2nd year (intermediate), or 3rd year (advanced) Attic or Homeric Greek are invited to enter the 21st ACL/NJCL National Greek Examination.

The usual sequence of exams is Beginning Attic (for high Schools only), Intermediate Attic, Attic Prose (which may be repeated for 2 years) and Attic Poetry. Students should take the exam which most closely matches their experience. All difficult vocabulary or syntax will be given as applicable to each level. Summaries of each passage will be provided. It is suggested that you review the new syllabi before ordering any exam.

Each examination will last 60 minutes. Each examination will contain 40 questions, with multiple-choice answers. For each of the forty questions on an examination, there will be as many as four answers, one of them correct, the others distracters.

All passages printed in the above examinations should be treated as sight passages. Accordingly, students entering the NGE would best prepare themselves by reading sight passages from the authors mentioned in the syllabi, and reading them for both comprehension and grammatical analysis.

Syllabi

Download individual syllabi here. The number that follows is the file size. The entire group of syllabi is 770KB

Attic Prose (90 KB)

Attic Poetry (85 KB)

Beginning Attic Exam* High School Students Only (130 KB)

Intermediate Attic Exam* First Year College and Advanced High School Students (105 KB)

Homeric Exam Odyssey (66 KB)

The newly developed syllabi are now available. You will need Adobe Acrobat reader, available free from Adobe.com to read the pdf. version of this file. Pdf format allows you to print this document from your computer. If you have any questions regarding the syllabi contents, please contact Dr. Deb Davies, 123 Argilla rd,. Andover, MA 01810-4622; (978) 749-9446. For previous exams, syllabi or an application, contact: ACL/NJCL National Greek Examination, The American Classical League, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 45056, info@aclclassics.org, phone (513)529 7741, fax (513) 529 7742.

OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOLARSHIPS

In 2001, high-school seniors who earn purple or blue ribbons will be eligible to apply for one scholarship in the amount of $1,000. Each scholarship will be paid to the winner's college or university on condition that s/he earn six credits of Greek or Latin during the school year. Winners will be selected by the NLE/NGE Scholarship Committee, chaired by Doris Kays, San Antonio, Texas. Teachers of eligible students will receive application forms in the mail by early April, 1998. Winners will be announced at the ACL Institute, San Francisco, CA, in June 1998, and notified directly thereafter by mail.

RESULTS OF THE 2000 NJCL/ACL NATIONAL GREEK EXAMINATION

The National Greek Examination in 2000 enrolled 897 students from 83 high schools, colleges, and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Of these 897 students, 487 (or 55%) earned purple, blue, red, or green ribbons. The battery of seven examinations comprised Attic Greek Levels I (Beginning and Intermediate), Level II (Prose), & Level III (Poetry), and Homeric Greek, the Odyssey .

Previous Examinations Available

A packet of previous examinations, with the answers can be obtained from the ACL.ACL/NJCL National Greek Examination, The American Classical League, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 45056, info@aclclassics.org, phone (513)529 7741, fax (513) 529 7742.