Like most of you I am waiting patiently impatiently for results of exams taken earlier this month. The exam was over 2 weeks ago now but still no sign of the result online. The issue of exams is not a simple matter - if it were, then results would be issued exactly 2 weeks or 3 weeks from the date of the exam. Is it compounded by other factors - when the examiner leaves the area, delays in the administrative side. No, I've come to the conclusion that the issue of results is irregular - I know people who did their exam after mine and have their result already.

Can't be long now Noodle if it's over two weeks. We're just starting the long wait - mine took theirs today!
Hope you get good news tomorow!

Ann

Royal Academy of Dance exam results take about 6 weeks... so I suppose we can't complain too much.
One daughter did a dance exam in same week as another did AB exam... AB result came back last week after just over 2 weeks.... ballet exam mark not expected till the end of the month!!!!

Well I took my Grade 6 piano on the 23rd and my Advanced 1 Tap with the ISTD on the 30th so I haven't got much hope really!

ISTD is much quicker.... on a par with AB I think!!!!!

I'm waiting for just 1 result from the 20th June - over 2 weeks ago. I feel sorry for the students because it is such a long and unpredictable waiting game. I've had results take 2 weeks, 3 weeks and 4 weeks, but also times when they've taken 3 ir 4 days. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to it. I suppose we should be grateful, as has already been said, dance exam results can take up to 3 months to arrive!

David

I too am awaiting results.

my pupil also took a piano exam with another teacher 3 days before her violin exam and she has already got this back!!??? And I'm still waiting.

There does not seem to be any pattern to it.

But as you say dance exams take longer - my daughters last exam took over 3 months to come back!!

I think they take longer proportionally to how stressed one is about the result. I had to wait far longer for my flute exam the year before last than my G1 challenge on the recorder!

Mine came online this morning, but no e-mail. Just happened to check!

David

Lucky you David. I'm still waiting. It doesn't seem fair that people who did exams on 23 June have their results and someone who did an exam on 19 June is still waiting.

*goes to check online - AGAIN*

Aargh - you still haven't got them? I'm starting to feel embarrassed about this!

Do you find the results are taking longer these days? I seem to remember in my first few years of teaching the results were back within a fortnight without fail!!! And occasionally back after only one week!!! Last time I entered pupils it took 3 weeks, and this time so far it's just over the fortnight and no sign online or in the post...... I was really excited when I saw it would be possible to get the results online earlier, but gee whizz! One day earlier???? It's hardly worth it.......(Or are the results sent out 2nd class post??? )

When I was learning & taking exams regularly, results often took a month to get back! Now, it's usually 2-3 weeks. I tell students it's usually three weeks so they don't start calling every day! I wish the theory ones could be hurried along though

Aww Maggie, it's not your fault and given that the results have no real logic behind their issue our situation could well be reversed!



In the spring term all my results seemed to appear more quickly than this term. I'm wondering has it something to do with the individual breakdown of marks being available too - it must take longer to add the marks for 6 sections of each exam than candidate xxxxx Grade xx 125 Merit or whatever. Even so, it still doesn't explain how some candidates can have a result 13 days after their exam and other candidates are still waiting for results 18 days later.... It is a most unfair system. Candidates should receive their results in the order they take their exams so someone who took an exam on 19th June should receive their result 5 days before someone who took and exam on 23rd June, not 5 days after.

As for the post, results are sent out first class. A colleague and I had candidates take exams at the same centre and received our results online on the same day. My mark forms/certificates arrived in the post the next day while my collegue didn't get hers until 6 days later. She had contacted the board who said they had all been posted together on a particular date, they arrived about an hour after she emailed the board!!

*goes to check again...*

Summer term results usually seem to take longer, because, I think, that there are lots more candidates in the summer term. Schools often seem to enter once a year, and in the summer.

I thought that maybe there would be fewer in the summer because people didn't want to clash with school exams, GCSE, A level and school trips.

In our local centres, March is normally the busiest time for exams, but this term has had far more candidates. The normally largest centre usually has exams for about 4 weeks, this time they needed a second venue and the exams were on there for the best part of 4 weeks too. I try to avoid summer term exams for GCSE and A level candidates if possible, but some of them like to do practical or theory exam along with their other exams - they say they have so many exams - one more won't make much difference!

Hmmm strange. I had 2 pupils do their exams on the same day, funnily enough within 5 mins of eachother at different centres. Only one is available to view online.....now whats that about?!

What date did they do their exams on?

23rd June Noodle. Am I just being impatient?! Just find it odd that only one has appeared on my online results thing......and if THAT one passed (by the very skin of his teeth) the other will definitely have passed (touch wood!)

Thanks flutey toot. Mine was 19th June and still no sign of result! Maybe your second result has gone to be moderated. When you get your other result in the post there might be a note explaining this. Hope you get your result soon!

I hope so Noodle! Im getting anxious! Or maybe one centre had many more entries than the other.
No news is good news I guess....................?!?!?

I hope you're right flutey toot!

I give up! This morning I emailed ABRSM asking about the sax result. My students results from 24th June at a different centre are now online, but STILL no sign of sax result from 19th June.

Sorry about your results frustration Noodle! I feel bad now in saying that my other result just came in!! Yay - a merit for Grade 6 piano isnt bad! Especially as wedged in between A level exams - well done my pupil!
Hope your results come through soon Noodle!

Don't worry about it flutey toot! Got results earlier - more or less as I had predicted. The one I thought might fail got a good pass, the rest were merit and 1 distinction. The result I was waiting for the most was my sax, and I got distinction in that. Now I'm just waiting for one more set of results - the rest of my students did their exams 2 weeks ago today! Wonder when on earth the results will appear.......

Well done to you and your student - a merit for grade 6 is very good!

Am I reading this right - did you get a distinction in Grade 1 sax?

Yes! *faints*

how do you see results online?

You have to be the person who put in the entry.
It's the same place as the online entry form, you have to use your applicant number and password to log in.

thanks but i've got to wait until my teacher rings me with the result then anyway grr.

When i looked at my past certificates - from last year - i saw that the certificates were actually printed 3 days or so after i took the exam. Why do the results take so long to get to us if the results are officialised on certificates so soon after the exam?

STILL waiting for my results - one pupil took G1 piano at the same centre 3 days before and had her results back after ONE week but we are still waiting for ours.!!

AGGHH

My fingernails are getting shorter by the day !!!

I hope they come soon.

Hope you don't have to wait as long as me. When was the exam arabesque?

Two weeks ago (27th June) Seems like longer though!!

Should be any day now arabesque! Good luck!

My results from exams on 29th June are on-line.... that's under 2 weeks !!!!! Not bad.

mine from the 27th aren't... and there was only little me....

I'm still waiting for mine from the 29th of June, fingers crossed they will come in the next week else I will have to wait until results day to get them!

I'm still waiting for results from 26th June!

well done with your sax exam noodle! Im thinking of learning the sax too....but might get learning how to drive out of the way first1 Just booked my first lesson OMG!!!! IM scared!

Thanks flutey toot. Good luck learning to drive. I think everyone finds the first lesson scary, so don't worry! I found the first time driving on my own after I passed my test really scary too. I didn't realise I was on my own until I got to the roundabout and looked left and realised there was nobody sitting beside me.... After that I was fine!

Good luck learning the sax - you'll have a head start with playing a woodwind instrument.

I took my grade 8 violin on the 26th of June and I still haven't got my results back yet. I'm really hoping that they come before the end of the week because I'm taking my grade 8 piano on monday and it would probably take some of the pressure off if I already know how I did on my violin exam.

I want my results now!!!!!!!!!

Most of the time they seem to come around 10 days - 2 weeks so the wait is killing me.

It would be good if someone at the board would let us all in to the mysteries of result handling.
If it depends on when an examiner finishes his/her tour then it would be useful to have the information about how long they are at a particular venue on the appointment letter. At least then you'd know whether you might be in for a longer wait (like if you were in the first week of a 3 week session).

I always ask the local rep when the examiner finishes so I have a rough idea of when I might get results. In my emails, I asked the board why results weren't sent out in the order the exams were taken so that everyone then would wait roughly the same length of time for their results.

Any reply, or will that take as long as your results?.....

The reply was 'The results from the exam taken on 19th June were posted on Friday 7th July. They are now available to view online'

Has anyone had their result from 27th June yet?
I'm STILL waiting patiently

- no i'm not - i'm checking every day and still not been posted yet

- shall I email the board?

would it do any good?

It's the longest i've had to wait - made harder by the fact that i'm not just waiting for my pupils but my own exam result!!!

AGGHHH!!!!

I know what you mean!

I took my exam on Mon 26th June, 1st day of the session in our local centre. Exams were held that week, none the week following (3rd July) and then for this week which is the last of the session.

The examiner this week is different from mine (daughter took her exam Wed), and the centre is at the start of the alphabet (.

My teacher came back from hols yesterday fully expecting the certificate to be on the doormat! She emailed the AB who said that they were just starting yesterday on marks from the week starting 26th June.

So it looks like it'll be next week now - boohoo!

I only got results from 26th June online yesterday, if that's any help. I think it is taking much longer this term to receive results. It took 3 weeks exactly for one set of results to appear online.