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> Hardest Part Of An Exam?
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post Sep 2 2009, 02:05 PM
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Just wondering. For me its scales, definately.
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post Sep 2 2009, 02:14 PM
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It always was scales for me, particularly in the early exams. I got 3/15 for Grade 2 Scales (LCM) in about 1958.
But by ALCM in 1963 I only dropped 1 mark.
On the organ, I had trouble with transposition when it came in at Grade 6 (15/24 for Sight Reading and Transposition), but it came OK in my Grade 8 (22/24 -capable fluent and accurate , he said !)
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post Sep 2 2009, 02:49 PM
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For me, aurals, definitely. I'm just no good at them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

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post Sep 2 2009, 02:58 PM
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Interesting, on average the thing I do best in is Aural or scales and Sight reading is what I dread, but in my last exam I found the scales ridiculously hard (she asked all the evil ones)...

Still I suppose hardest for me is the sightreading...
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:02 PM
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Walking into the room.
And waiting for your turn.
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:04 PM
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Sitting in the waiting room feeling like you're about to be sentenced to death... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:05 PM
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QUOTE(Solari @ Sep 2 2009, 04:04 PM) *

Sitting in the waiting room feeling like you're about to be sentenced to death... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I thought it was more like feeling you already had been......
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:06 PM
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I thought it was more like feeling you already had been......


Actually, I'll agree with that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:11 PM
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Trying to get warm enough fingers and instrument in order to play without seizing up or fugging up.
Canny choosing of exam board* gets round other difficulties (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif).

*and in my case, though I know not for everyone, enough of the right sort of practice (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:11 PM
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QUOTE(sbhoa @ Sep 2 2009, 04:02 PM) *

And waiting for your turn.

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And I think my students would, too.

Apart from that, sight-reading. Aural tests were usually OK - until Grade 7, when I could not sing back the lower part of a two-part phrase if my life depended on it.
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The sight singing is deffinitely the hardest part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
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post Sep 2 2009, 03:34 PM
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Aural, Aural, Aural. and erm, Aural. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)
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post Sep 2 2009, 05:26 PM
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The aural is the worst bit. Waiting for the results comes second.
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post Sep 2 2009, 05:30 PM
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The hardest part is the aural. The worst bit is whatever comes first as thats when my hands go all shakey for no particular reason - by the second piece, they've generally calmed down again.
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post Sep 2 2009, 05:49 PM
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The hardest bit is whatever bit it is you can't do!! in my case sight reading (though it's getting better).
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