This page lists what we actually have for OCR GCSE Latin J282. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
The list is finite, and that changes what revision can do
Most language revision runs into the same wall: vocabulary is effectively unbounded, so a student never knows when they have done enough, and a resource never knows what to include.
Latin at GCSE does not have that problem. OCR publishes a Defined Vocabulary List of about four hundred and fifty headwords, required for every Latin-to-English task on every component. For the English-to-Latin composition option there is a Restricted Vocabulary List of exactly a hundred and twenty-five words, a genuine subset of the first. Words outside those lists that appear in an exam passage are glossed on the paper, and no dictionary is allowed.
A closed list with a published size is the best possible target for spaced recall. A student can be told, truthfully, that learning these four hundred and fifty words is the single highest-value thing they can do, and that there is a point at which the job is finished.
Two of these activities work that list directly, one on nouns and adjectives and one on verbs sorted by conjugation, and the noun one uses a word search, which is the only one in this subject on the site.
What cannot be memorised, and the three activities for it
The rest of the language component is not a memory problem. An unseen passage is a reasoning problem: which word is the subject, what does that ending do, why is this verb in the subjunctive.
Three activities go at that. Syntax recognition practice works on identifying constructions in a sentence before translating it. Restricted composition practice goes the other way, English into Latin, within the hundred and twenty-five word list. Unseen translation practice uses historical passages of the kind the paper sets.
The order matters if you are setting them. Vocabulary first, then syntax recognition, then unseen translation, because the third depends on the first two and setting it early produces frustration rather than progress.
All six components, and the rotating texts
Students take the compulsory language component plus any two of the other five. All five optional components have activities here, so whichever pair your department entered is covered: prose literature A and B each have a translation activity and a literary analysis activity, and so do verse literature A and B, with two more on literature and culture.
The set texts rotate. The literature activities here are written against the current cycle, and when OCR moves the prescription they will be about a text your students are not sitting.
What survives the rotation is the method inside them: how to translate a prescribed passage you have already met, and how to write about style, word order and effect rather than retelling the story. That half transfers. The passages do not, and a literature activity on last cycle's text is worth nothing to a class sitting this one.
The two literature and culture activities, on Roman entertainment and on myths and beliefs, are the longest at twenty-six minutes and do not rotate in the same way.
Using them
The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. To put several in front of one class in order, build a sprint and share one link. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
Departments running Latin alongside Classical Civilisation will find that course at OCR GCSE Classical Civilisation, which needs no Latin at all.
What this page does not do
It is not the vocabulary list. The activities work the list; OCR publishes it and your department distributes it.
It does not follow the rotation automatically. When the prescribed texts change, the literature activities here will need rewriting, and until they are, treat them as method practice.
It does not mark translations. A translation is a judgement, and there is no auto-marking here that would survive contact with a real Latin sentence.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.