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> Examiners' Mistakes, Ever come across any?
jenny
post Jul 4 2012, 10:24 AM
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QUOTE(dolce@piano @ Jul 4 2012, 09:36 AM) *

I heard, threw the door, one of my G2 candidates playing an arpeggio hands together.


And you were so incensed that you threw the door??
Sorry - couldn't resist!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Jul 4 2012, 10:52 AM
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I was given a grade 5 singing sheet for my grade 4. At the third note I sang, she played a piano note. I said "why did you play a note?" "You made a mistake" she said. "No I didn't", I replied, and showed her my sheet, as I knew I'd sung the correct note. Then we both realised I had been given the wrong sheet. She apologised and looked a little embarrassed, and we started the element again with the correct sheet.

If that had happened to one of my kids they would not have had the confidence to question it.

My teacher thinks it's hilarious that I corrected the examiner!
They are only human, and usually do a great job. I'm sure she won't make that mistake again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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The examiner for my Grade 8 singing nearly missed out the cadence and cadential progression questions from my aural. I sang back the bass line and then he went to give me the sight singing test. I said, 'I hate to say this, but I think you've forgotten to give me the cadential progression!'. Luckily I did get the chords correct. I bet some of my pupils would have breathed a sigh of relief and not said anything. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Jul 4 2012, 02:27 PM
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When I did ALCM way back in 1963, I had prepared a whole Beethoven Sonata as required, indeed from memory. The examiner stopped me after just the exposition and development sections of the first movement. I thought he was then going to ask for the next movement (cos the recapitualtion wasnt much different from the exposition), but then he asked for the 'C' Piece. Anyway he gave me 17/20, and I passed the exam overall so no reason to complain.
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post Jul 4 2012, 03:35 PM
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A violinist I know got given a viola sight reading in grade 5 violin... and neither the candidate or examiner noticed until after the exam (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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post Jul 4 2012, 04:26 PM
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TG Grade 3 piano candidate was given the improv stimulus for Bflat intruments - ie in keys in which he had never practised his improvs, and the scales for which were not even in the technical work for the grade. We queried it and got a whole 2 marks added to the total which was rather a pyhrric victory as it took him just a mark off a distinction I seem to remember!
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post Jul 4 2012, 04:30 PM
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I got given grade 5 scales for my Trinity grade 4 clarinet. I initially attempted the first scale, before saying that I hadn't learnt that one! He realised his mistake and I ended up with full marks in that section!
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In one of my son's exams (TG) the examiner forgot to take the sight reading book back, and at the end on the exam son gathered his things up and walked out, complete with sight reading book. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) We had a phone call from the teacher that night to say the steward was looking for the book and did we have it? I wonder how the examiner got through the rest of the day without the sight reading book. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)
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post Jul 5 2012, 12:03 PM
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QUOTE(jenny @ Jul 4 2012, 10:24 AM) *

QUOTE(dolce@piano @ Jul 4 2012, 09:36 AM) *

I heard, threw the door, one of my G2 candidates playing an arpeggio hands together.


And you were so incensed that you threw the door??
Sorry - couldn't resist!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)



Whoops ! Yep, that's right - I threw the door right across the room, smashing into 'nasty examiner's' antique desk . . .

And well done to katemorrisviolin for correcting the examiner - my son, age 11, went back into the exam room, at the gap before the next entrant, to inform the examiner that he'd been asked a B scale which he said he didn't know, and having checked in the book, he wasn;t expected to know.
Turns out the examiner had asked for 'D' - both had a laugh about needing to talk clearer and listen better . . .
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post Jul 5 2012, 09:08 PM
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Hands up anyone who never makes a mistake in their "day job"? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Examiners are human beings too so, presumably, are just as prone as we can be to making the occasional mistake. It's happened to some of my own candidates entered for exams from time to time.

FWIW, I always tell my students to check carefully what they are being given to do (and know which scales they are/aren't supposed to know) and then, very politely, query it in the exam at the time if it seems wrong. When I give them "mock" exams, I often slip in a deliberate error to see what they do. Interesting how many don't seem to notice and go on and complete the requested scale etc.

When I ask them later what I did wrong, they often haven't a clue or pick on completely the wrong thing!
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post Jul 5 2012, 09:18 PM
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QUOTE(oboist @ Jul 5 2012, 10:08 PM) *

When I give them "mock" exams, I often slip in a deliberate error to see what they do. Interesting how many don't seem to notice and go on and complete the requested scale etc.

Definitely stealing that idea! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Jul 5 2012, 09:26 PM
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QUOTE(owainsutton @ Jul 5 2012, 10:18 PM) *

QUOTE(oboist @ Jul 5 2012, 10:08 PM) *

When I give them "mock" exams, I often slip in a deliberate error to see what they do. Interesting how many don't seem to notice and go on and complete the requested scale etc.

Definitely stealing that idea! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


Inspired! I will be trying that one too.
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