Hello all!
my question is:
if a child (in this case my son) has been learning violin with 'spot stickers' on fingerboard (as his sense of pitch is no good and needs developing), would he be allowed to use the stickers on fingerboard in the exam???
My head tells me NO, to me it would not make much sense but I might be wrong.
He is due to take grade 1 in November and has been learning since January this year.
Please advise.
Many thanks
Jo

It's not a problem to have the stickers on in an exam.... My daughter doesn't have them on any more... but she has had them on in the past... I think they might have gone on again just before her Grade1. She doesn't need them now as her sense of pitch has developed and she can now hear when she isn't playing in tune!!!!

Yes the stickers are OK for exams. The kids do learn to hear in tune and manage without them after a while.

I had a neurotic Gd 5 student who had an 'invisible' sticker for a particularly nasty shift. She could do it perfectly well with her eyes closed time after time but the sticker helped for the exam-wobbles she was prone to.

Well, you all agree on it, stickers are 'allowed' in an exam, even if to me this does not make any sense! I'd want somebody taking an exam to know how to play without them, but that is me (if the violin was meant to have 'frets or stickers' then it would have them, it doesn't have them so you should eventually know how to play without stickers and surely for an exam.
But your answer is going to make my son happy for now!
I must say though, it is going to be much easier to pass with those things on!
thank you all!