Daughter (12) just took her Grade 5 singing exam. On her first piece the accompanist had to start the intro again (before she started) and then halfway through turned 2 pages at once and got lost. Daughter carried on, and the accompanist eventually stopped the piece and they started from the middle again.

Other pieces were good, unaccompanied v good, bang on in tune and time (Santa Lucia). Aural OK, and sightreading...well a restart and very approximate!.

Hoping for a merit for her, now just have to wait a week to find out.....

Looks like a bit bad luck, but on the other hand a chance for your daughter to show, that she is very good.
for her and for you.

If it is clear the accompanist went wrong, a good examiner will take that into account and not penalise the candidate.

I hope that helps to reassure you Dawn.

He did apologise to the examiner and say that he turned 2 pages at once - and it was Scarlatti's Le Violette which is full of little entries and very similar but not quite all the way through!
Kate apologised to him too, which was a nice touch, I think. Fingers crossed.

Well done to your daughter for keeping her nerve!
Daughter (will be 11 by then! ) takes Grade 5 piano in a couple of weeks. Whole family are very very bored of her pieces.

But not so bored as we are of the songs from the school play.

Roll on the summer holidays.

Good luck to your daughter! Mine practices piano on the digital with headphones so we don't have that problem...

Oh and I felt quite ill listening outside when it went wrong. Felt better then the accompanist told us what happened!
Now it's just my turn tomorrow

I'm sure that the examiner would take into account how professional your daughter was and that it was the accompanist who went wrong, so try not to worry. It does sound like your DD coped very well.

Good Luck for tomorrow.

Exam Session B. Grade 8. In 5 days.

Blues Concerto is there. There is always the chance I could muck up a bit in the middle, or at the end but I did a run-through with an audience last wednesday and it went well.

Concertino- DAMN THOSE STACCATO SEMIQUAVERS! I mean they are alright but they could be a damnsight better, but my tongue and my fingers don't seem to want to work in unison. Everything else in it sounds nice though.

Scherzando Sax- I've been playing this now for a year. practically perfect, I need this to go well.

Scales: The Bane of my life. Majors are fine. Minors are a pain in the ###### especially melodic ones.

Aurals: Love these babies, and having just done AS Level music they seem to be going well, Just the sight singing may be a bit um interesting.

Sight-Reading: Could go well, or um die.

5 days to rectify Minors and Staccato's. Gaah.

On the bright side, 5 days till the rest of my life

Two weeks to go to G8 Oboe Four GCSE papers between now and the exam. I'll be glad when it's over but I hate being on the bench waiting for results even more .

Best of luck to all those who have taken or are taking exams this session.

Very best of luck to Emsoboe, Saxlad and all others taking exams in the next few weeks.

, yes, good luck to all of you!

Good luck - your exam is the day before my daughter's G7 violin (eek!). 3 days left to correct rather out of tune minor scales (very high!!) and sort out last minute glitches with one of the pieces - why can't she slow down then it won't be a problem!! Am still bribing her with sessions on the sax if she does violin practise without throwing a prima donna strop!

Good luck everyone, fingers crossed for you all x

ITS TODAY!!!!

And I managed to pick up a cold this week so am literally...

Oh no!! Hope it goes well for you!

Good luck - will keep fingers crossed for you, hope you feel better. Let us know how it goes!

Daughter's exam is tomorrow and we have horrible last minute nerves and things going wrong that have been fine up until yesterday! I will be very relieved when tomorrow is over.

It went alright today actually Karvol and Adrenaline saved the day. Pieces were good. Slight muck up on the scales and the second sight singing (why they put octave jumps in sight singing in a sax exam god only knows.) Everything else was alright

I think Ive passed, but I have no idea what with.

Yay - well done, sounds like a good mark in order!

Daughter has just had a good lesson and problems mostly sorted so nerves are bit better here than this morning................ roll on tomorrow morning!

Well done, Saxlad - that sounds pretty promising.
Hope all goes well, Horseplay and Daughter - the end is in sight for all of us.

Phew - G7 violin all over!! So proud of my little girl to go in and do that exam, a bit tearful with nerves as she went in, but she performed her pieces really well, a couple of slips but nothing major, and she played her socks off! She thinks the scales were OK (had a brain freeze on a dominant 7th but OK apart from that), sightreading OK and thinks she did OK on the aural, a few ums when it came to test D - discussing the piece, so fingers crossed!

time - Hope your daughter gets a good result (sounds likely ) and at the very least it's over and she can get on and enjoy the last weeks of term.

Sounds good - fingers crossed

Can't find the results thread

ABRSM are getting there results out at a rate of just over a week so props to them.

I got 141/150!!!!!

got full marks on the guilhaud (dont know how!)

and dropped a couple on aurals but that was it.

I am now a gr8 distinction saxophonist. Music College here I come

Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!
Was just browsing round the threads looking for some good news to cheer me up - and here it is!
Well done, Saxlad! I am absolutely thrilled for you!

Fantastic!!! A huge well done to you!!!

I never expected it to be that high though...

Congratulations!! I can feel the relief from here Onwards and upwards

So much.

SaxLad, that's a tremendous result - very, very well done!

Superb result - very well done!

(still waiting for daughter's result, exam was the day after yours - OCDish online checking in progress!!!)

Make room! Emsoboe will be joining those on the bench later tiday

Results arrived today!

130

Other Half - who has had no input - cried!

Well done Saxlad and JMNW

A hearty ditto!

a duo of distinction indeed!

Did anyone predict 130 on the nail or can I claim the prize for my continued insistence he would get 129?
Brilliant news MNW - hope it's cheered you up a bit (and stiffened your resolve?)

Oh wow, fantastic xx

Congratulations! Not a parent, but have followed your posts about JMNW - sounds like the distinction was well deserved! It certainly bodes well for the RCM

Daughter's results arrived today - Grade 7 Violin - 118. Initially daughter a little disappointed as it's only 2 marks short of merit, and scales and aural marks a lot lower than expected, but reminded quickly by teacher that it's still a fantastic achievement at age 11, so now very happy!

Well done to daughter, and it is a great achievement especially at such a young age. I think there can easily be more than 10 marks depending on the examiner.

Our group had quite a lot of distinctions but they ranged from 130-136 with the mode being 134 so all very similar. Interestingly, apart from one very musical child and from my quick scan of the sheet, it was only the choristers who got distinctions. I don't have the report yet but I do wonder if an extra mark was found to push it up to distinction level.

As for the other problem - it was a misunderstanding on my part!

Very well done indeed to h-p-daughter! Any pass in such a high grade at 11 is an amazing achievement and to be within touching distance of a merit (while frustrating) is just further proof of what a talented and hard working girl she obviously is. I hope you're both feeling very proud of her now - glad her teacher is too.

Thanks MNW and TDM - we are hugely proud of her, and she is rather pleased with herself after a bit of pep talking (phew!)! And very well done to JMNW - great result!

That's a fabby result, big congrats to you both (and glad the pep talk worked!). That's a fantastic outcome at 11 yo!

Brilliant!!

What fantastic results.

Well done Saxlad, Little Miss Horseplay and JMNW.

I have to echo these well done's.

I didn't start playing till 11 so grade 7 Violin at that age is amazing, jealousy here

and Well done JMNW for your distinction 130 eh, who knew

Personally I woud expect choristers to be ahead of the pack for reasons which have often been stated (or pooh poohed) on these forums. Well done.

SaxLad, only just noticed your results! Wow!!!

Well done for all these amazing results..... JMNW, Little Miss Horseplay and Sax Lad etc. Really good results!

My DD has 12 days I think until her exam. I feel a little better after I heard her lesson today. She usually has lessons when I'm not here, but I took her to her teacher today so heard it all! Maybe she will pass after all.

Mind you- she'll have to live that long to be able to take her exam. She is being a bit of a madam- well a lot of one!

Was heartened to see her teacher's daughter today. She is the same age as my daughter. Teachers DD has her Gr 7 tomorrow and she was refusing to practice or at least was making a fuss about it. Ahhhh the delights of 12 year olds.....

Brilliant result! As to who won the prediction, I think that goes to JMNW himself, doesn't it?



That's a terrific achievement - my son's just tackling the G7 syllabus now (guitar and/or piano) and at 15 I'd be over the moon if he achieved 118 and so would he. Very well done