ULE Awards

The ULE bestows two honors upon top-ranking students: the silver CAESAR award and the gold AVGVSTVS award. Both come with a certificate and a medal, and schools are encouraged to present students with their awards at an end-of-year assembly.

Note about awards:

Our goal is to provide a helpful tool for mapping how much progress students are making over time and where they are compared to national trends. Therefore, as we assign awards, a student’s score is determined by how many concepts he proves his knowledge of, not just the percent of the questions on his exam that he gets correct. Thus, this test helps compare schools and students across the country; Latin teachers can see how proficient their 5th graders are compared to 5th graders at many other schools around the nation. Accordingly, our approach is similar to what you would see in other competitive programs, both academic and athletic: students compete against other students of like age. We believe that this strategy ensures a meaningful and helpful measure.

However, we do recognize that students who have started Latin later in their school career—and so are less proficient than others in the same grade at other schools—may not receive awards as readily, even if they do well on the exam and would merit honor at a school’s award assembly. So, even though these students may not rank as high on the national percentiles, we recommend that schools recognize such students with an in-school commendation based on their score within their class.