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The day of the exam

Introduction | Arriving at the exam centre | Warming up | The exam 

Warming up

WoodwindWe recommend that candidates have a thorough warm-up session before leaving home or school to attend the exam.

Once at the exam centre, there is still much that a candidate can do to prepare in the few minutes before their exam, including:

  • loosening and exercising fingers
  • blowing silently through wind/brass instruments to bring them up to temperature
  • warming up embouchure and mouthpiece
  • quietly humming a few scales if a singer
  • mentally running through the music

Where there is a warm-up room, candidates will have a brief chance to warm up aloud. Sometimes the room will have a piano and the steward will indicate the length of time available to each candidate. This time is best used as a brief chance to warm up aloud – not for last minute practice!

We ask that candidates return to the waiting room in good time for the exam.

Introduction | Arriving at the exam centre | Warming up | The exam