Just how accurate, or in what 'style', do the answers have to be in the differences test in Grade 1 aural?

Problem explained more at http://website.lineone.net/~webduck/abg1.htm

Thanks in advance.

Having just looked at your link I think most of the answers are acceptable, except the "slower note" one (how often have I heard that one !) You are also allowed to clap the two rhythms to show the difference according to the ABRSM aural training book, and I find this very useful with less experienced players who can't find the right words.

I'm really unstuck on the aural - I've got a very short term memory. I listen and understand the first one and then the second - I could probably describe the difference - but - but I've forgotten the first one. So we do it again but then I've forgotten the second and it's only two bars... I get to practice this every lesson but I'm not improving. It's not that I can't tell the difference - I really can't remember for that long.

With a change in the rhythm you can pretty well get away with describing notes as 'longer' or 'shorter' at the beginning, middle or end.
If you can also tell the difference between even notes and dotted rhythm that is a bonus.

When I did grade 1 clarinet in summer I just said 'the second time there was a dotted rhythm in the middle'.
I got full marks.

The last time we practiced this I said "The first time in the first bar it went one and two and three and four and, and the second time it went one and two and three and four and." (duh)

I've just bought a CD (good old eBay) called Perfection Ear - Ear training Practice Sets 2 which has practice in Rhythm Clapback, Molody Playback and Indentification of Intervals. Haven't summond up the enthusiasm to listen to it yet though.

I'm planning to blow the examiner's mind with my playing skill and just cry through the aural bit.