To help teachers choose appropriate exercises for their students, each lesson is rated by difficulty on a scale of 1-5. The rating is indicated by the numer of devil's heads above the lesson's subject line.
  • A rating of 1 might indicate, for example, an English cognates lesson which presupposes no grammatical knowledge of Latin.
  • A rating of 2 indicates a lesson which requires some morphological knowledge, but no knowledge of syntax; for example, a lesson which requires the student to transform words in the accusative case into the ablative.
  • A rating of 3 indicates that the student is expected to combine morphological and syntactic knowledge with some ease; this category will include, for example, paratactic reading passages where the student is asked to read the passage and then match words from the reading with identifications (in English) of their grammatical forms.
  • A rating of 4 indicates that students will demonstrate knowledge of a more advanced grammatical topic like the subjunctives and gerunds mentioned above.
  • A rating of 5 indicates a complex reading passage (for example, a passage constructed with several subordinate clauses) with questions requiring the student to understand the form and function of words in the passage.

Ratings have currently been applied to about 20% of the posted exercises.