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Since I dont have much eperience in music,I dont understand the meaning of skipping grade.Skipping grade means skipping the exams or just skipping the grade that you dont want to learn??
QUOTE(pizzicato27 @ Jul 26 2008, 06:36 AM) 
Since I dont have much eperience in music,I dont understand the meaning of skipping grade.Skipping grade means skipping the exams or just skipping the grade that you dont want to learn??
Skipping grades just means skipping th exam
Yes, it means not doing every exam.
The grade exams are NOT a curriculum. They are markers along the way and at each stage it's desirable that you learn new techniques through playing lots of music to get you to the stage where you are ready and able to start preparing exam pieces. Things like scales, sight reading and aural will be an ongoing process so that by the time you are ready to work on exam pieces these things are already largely in place.
The grade exams are NOT a curriculum. They are markers along the way and at each stage it's desirable that you learn new techniques through playing lots of music to get you to the stage where you are ready and able to start preparing exam pieces. Things like scales, sight reading and aural will be an ongoing process so that by the time you are ready to work on exam pieces these things are already largely in place.
QUOTE(sbhoa @ Jul 26 2008, 11:38 AM)
Yes, it means not doing every exam.
The grade exams are NOT a curriculum. They are markers along the way and at each stage it's desirable that you learn new techniques through playing lots of music to get you to the stage where you are ready and able to start preparing exam pieces. Things like scales, sight reading and aural will be an ongoing process so that by the time you are ready to work on exam pieces these things are already largely in place.
They are indeed markers. Starting work in the September on, say, grade 3, when you are about grade 2 and a half standard, with an exam in the December is not good, and is often stressful...
Grades are just things that are tested, not everything you want/need to know/learn.
But they are cumulative. So say you decided that the first exam you will take will be grade 3. That doesn't mean you can just pick some G3 pieces and go for it - to pass a G3 exam, you will need to have the same skills as someone who took G1 and G2. The difference is, you don't take the exams for G1 and G2. It might take the both of you the same time to get to G3 standard - by skipping grade exams, you are skipping the exam, not the learning!
You can take any exam you like, and skip any you like (indeed, you don't have to take any, ever; except in certain circimstances, e.g. if you want to do a diploma you will need a grade 8).
But they are cumulative. So say you decided that the first exam you will take will be grade 3. That doesn't mean you can just pick some G3 pieces and go for it - to pass a G3 exam, you will need to have the same skills as someone who took G1 and G2. The difference is, you don't take the exams for G1 and G2. It might take the both of you the same time to get to G3 standard - by skipping grade exams, you are skipping the exam, not the learning!
You can take any exam you like, and skip any you like (indeed, you don't have to take any, ever; except in certain circimstances, e.g. if you want to do a diploma you will need a grade 8).
QUOTE(Maizie @ Jul 26 2008, 09:27 PM)
Grades are just things that are tested, not everything you want/need to know/learn.
But they are cumulative. So say you decided that the first exam you will take will be grade 3. That doesn't mean you can just pick some G3 pieces and go for it - to pass a G3 exam, you will need to have the same skills as someone who took G1 and G2. The difference is, you don't take the exams for G1 and G2. It might take the both of you the same time to get to G3 standard - by skipping grade exams, you are skipping the exam, not the learning!
You can take any exam you like, and skip any you like (indeed, you don't have to take any, ever; except in certain circimstances, e.g. if you want to do a diploma you will need a grade 8).
yes thank you now I understand hehe =)
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