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You can find all of the important dates and deadlines for this year's exam at https://www.nle.org/important-exam-information.

All schools, regardless of testing method, must pay the $20, $30, or $50 shipping fee, which covers the shipment of the results package via UPS in April.

You will receive an invoice by email immediately after you submit your online registration. We are no longer sending confirmation postcards through the USPS.

See our guide on giving the NLE to homeschooled students here: https://www.nle.org/nle-for-homeschooled-students

The NLE office will send you an e-mail. Be sure to check your spam folder regularly in case a communication from our office ends up in that folder.

Register online at https://www.nle.org/registration through Lingco to order exams.

The Introduction to Latin exam name has not changed. The former Latin I exam is now the Beginning Latin exam. The former Latin II exam is now the Intermediate Latin exam. The former Latin III exam is now the Intermediate Latin Reading Comprehension exam. The former Latin III-IV Prose exam is now the Advanced Latin Prose exam. The former Latin III-IV Poetry exam is now the Advanced Latin Poetry exam. The former Latin V-VI exam is now the Advanced Latin Reading Comprehension exam.

No. Students are only allowed to take one exam annually.

The Introduction to Latin exam can be taken only once. The Beginning Latin through Advanced Latin Poetry exams can be taken twice each. The Advanced Latin Reading Comprehension exam can be taken multiple times.

We are not based on any particular textbook series, so we offer a syllabus for each level of the exam, available on this website. Use the syllabus to determine which exam is the best fit for your students.

The Intermediate Latin Reading Comprehension exam mirrors the format of the Advanced Latin Reading Comprehension exam, in that both exams contain two Latin passages, with questions based upon those passages.

Not at all! Any Latin teacher can give the NLE to their students, regardless of membership in any organization.

Contact Joe Clement at Clement Testing Services and request the scores for your school or student. His email is clementtestingservice@verizon.net.

Latin teachers are allowed to proctor the exam. However, if they order the paper exam, they must designate someone other than themselves to receive and secure the exam materials until exam day, since Latin teachers cannot see the exams before exam day. A proctor could also be a member of the school staff, such as a principal, guidance counselor, or librarian. In homeschool situations, parents or other adults (e.g., neighbors) are allowed to act as proctors.

The National Latin Exam has been made aware of several ways we can improve our question writing to reflect the diverse populations of students taking the exam. Some ways we can “change” an existing question: Naming female characters as often as we name male characters Expanding the roles and activities of women, while still maintaining cultural authenticity (i.e. Roman women did more than shop for dresses!) While acknowledging that slavery did exist in ancient times, and that warfare and conquest were part of the history of ancient Rome, balancing questions that include references to slavery and warfare with the many other culturally authentic activities of the Romans, as well as including non-Roman views of the Romans Avoiding portrayals of rape in mythology and avoiding euphemisms of rape (i.e. referring to Jupiter as “appearing” to Leda or to Apollo’s “love“ of Daphne). VERY IMPORTANT: we do not believe the above topics should never be addressed – on the contrary, teachers play crucial roles in leading classroom discussions. However, these topics are not suitable as “one-off” questions students may encounter on an exam.

The NLE will no longer be collecting data on race and gender for the foreseeable future.

The NLE collects the grade level and level of Latin for each student.

The student must be a high school senior who is enrolled in a Latin class during senior year and must earn a gold medal on the Advanced Latin Prose, Advanced Latin Poetry, or Advanced Latin Reading Comprehension exam during their senior year. Letters inviting these students to apply for the scholarship are e-mailed to the Latin teachers in April.

Any high school seniors, college students, or graduate students in masters programs, who are interested in teaching Latin, can apply for the Linda S. Montross New Latin Educator Scholarship on the scholarship page of the NLE website. Applications are due by February 15th.

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