Exams
CAMWS College Greek Exam
Χαῖρε! The CAMWS College Greek Exam (CGE) is the first and only nationally standardized exam for assessing students in their first year of college-level Greek.
This year · 2026–27
- SEP 27 Fall registration Closed
- Early November Fall exams received Date to be confirmed
- FEB 14 Spring registration Due in 129 days
- Late March Spring exams received Date to be confirmed
Last published for 2025–26: Nov 1, 2025. The office confirms the 2026–27 day.
Last published for 2025–26: Mar 21, 2026. The office confirms the 2026–27 day.
Three awards in this program
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CAMWS College Greek Exam
The CAMWS College Greek Exam (CGE) is the first and only nationally standardized exam for assessing students in their first year of college-level Greek. In addition to the elementary exam, CAMWS offers an Attic tragedy exam for those in the final phase of the intermediate-level study of Greek or later.
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Edward Phinney Book Prize
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South has established the Edward Phinney Book Prize, to be awarded to any student receiving a perfect score (or coming closest to a perfect score) on the elementary College Greek Exam.
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Intermediate/Tragedy College Greek Exam Prize
This prize is awarded to the student(s) earning the highest score on the Intermediate/Tragedy College Greek Exam.
Who can apply
- If you are administering the elementary exam, we ask that you do so at a time that is as close as possible to the point when you are two-thirds the way though the first-year Greek sequence at your institution.
- The Attic tragedy exam must only be taken once by each student, but institutions may administer the exam in the Fall, Spring, or both.
How to apply
Please submit this form to request exam administration materials.
There is no fee to participate, although institutions must print out the exams and scantrons.
The elementary exam consists of forty multiple-choice questions.
The Attic tragedy exam consists of forty multiple-choice questions based on an unaltered passage drawn from a play of one of the three main tragedians.