Alternative aural tests
All information within these guidelines refers to the new tests for deaf and hearing impaired candidates, introduced for use in exams from 1 January 2007. From this date any previous test material will be replaced. Please ensure you refer to the correct specimens.
- Provided that the keyboard is not in sight, candidates may stand wherever they wish in the room or place one or both hands on the piano.
- Candidates who require the tests to be played in a specific range on the piano should inform ABRSM at the time of entry. Examiners will accommodate this within the parameters of the test.
- For any test that requires a ‘clapped’ response, candidates are free to either clap or tap.
- In tests where a change of rhythm is to be described, examiners are happy to accept any valid verbal, clapped or tapped response.