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latin multiple choice tests #58

Open alysawyer opened 1 year ago

alysawyer commented 1 year ago

Do you know where I can access the multiple choice parts of past exams? I was only able to find the free response online.

alysawyer commented 1 year ago

there seems to be a sizable amount of online practice questions but I assume we want to evaluate it on the actual tests

mikeizbicki commented 1 year ago

Yes, real tests would be best... but upon further reflection I think this is going to be a rather hard path for us to take. I've just taken a look through an AP practice book, and the exams require a lot of "English knowledge about Latin" that at least our current textbook doesn't have inside of it. So there's no way I would expect any model/person who's only used this book to do well. It would be an interesting question to also use an English-Latin grammar to give the model this knowledge (and that would be something useful for many reasons), but that's not obvious to me how to do.

alysawyer commented 1 year ago

Yeah that makes sense to me -- I was thinking of training it on the texts that are in the syllabus because I think that some of the contextual knowledge comes from those required readings but I don't think that would be entirely sufficient to give it a reasonable shot at the English knowledge portion