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5 students took grade 1 - 3 merits and 2 passes
1 student took grade 2 - merit
2 students took grade 3 - 1 merit and 1 pass
1 student took grade 4 - pass
1 student took grade 5 - merit
1 student took grade 8 - merit

i'm a very happy bunny

Well done angie and pupils.

Good to see you posting again

Just got mine for 4th April.

Received 23rd March before the bank holiday but now waiting for 30th March and 2nd April all for the same centre... bit confuzzled how the 4th has come thru before the other dates but I guess that tour didn't post as quickly?!

Fairly uninteresting to anyone but me and my pupils, really, but here goes: 4 distinctions and 1 merit. (Looks for 'smug' smiley...)

Mine from 4th April just came online!

2 weeks to the day and with Easter in between. I am impressed AB.

Now to make all those lovely calls to wonderful pupils.

Vicki1433

Still waiting from 3rd April.

Mine from March 27th came through online on Wednesday (15th) and arrived by post today - three weeks to the day.

Pleasing results - two distinctions and one merit - but I think this has to be the slowest.

VERY pleasing I would say maggiemay. Congratulations.

My lot don't do theirs until June and I am already biting my fingernails and making desperate assessments!

Ohh.


took mine on 2nd April and I'm not sure if teacher is holding the results orrr she haven't got it yet. As it's still Easter I don't want to pester her.

I'm so anxious and worrying a lott

Congratulations Team Maggiemay!

I have lots of sympathy - but I'm still waiting for my pupils' results from 2nd April so perhaps she hasn't heard yet. I expect she would let you know if she had heard.

Aw, thanks Aquarelle and Barry !

Babybanana, I think Susie is probably right. It's quite likely your teacher is still waiting to get her results.

Still waiting

Me too

Yes! I'm still waiting too! 3 weeks now ! This is the longest I've ever had to wait in almost 10 years of doing abrsm exams!!! Getting nagged ALOT by several pupils, I don't think they quite get that' it's not up to me! LOL!

Mine was 3 weeks ago today too.....still haven't heard.

Got 'em, they appeared online about 4.15. Both candidates got merits. Marks more or less as expected for pieces, but one candidate I expected to get better marks for scales and sight reading (although he did get full marks for aural - yay!!), the other did better than I expected on scales, sight reading and aural.

Got mine too! Hooray!

Grade 1 Flute 128

Grade 2 Clarinet 139
Grade 2 Sax 138
Grade 2 Clarinet 114

Grade 3 Clarinet 137
Grade 3 Clarinet 136
Grade 3 Sax 133
Grade 3 Sax 125
Grade 3 Sax 120

Grade 4 Clarinet 118
Grade 4 Flute 114
Grade 4 Flute 108

Grade 8 Flute 127

One student did grade 2 sax and grade 3 clarinet and got 30 marks for both her list B pieces! I was well chuffed not one thing failed from any of them....I'm sooooo proud!

Still waiting

Well done for lots of good results. Well worth waiting for.

I have passed my grade 4 singing exam with 114 marks.
Am happy but would h ave liked a merit.
Have started wrok on grade 5.
I took the exam on 31st March have waited long time for result.
JoAnne

Congratulations, that's a good solid result

Congrats everyone!
My teacher rang this afternoon with my my Grade 2 piano result from the 30th March - 139!!! I'm so happy

Phew! Checked online this afternoon just after pupil had arrived for a lesson and there they were! Fortunately she had passed, so I didn't have to compose my face. Just off to tell the other one that she's passed too now, hope she hasn't gone to bed.

Well done, Rachel!

JoAnne, 114 is a fine pass; the exam is just a snapshot of your performance, and on another day you might well have achieved a merit. Grade 5, here we come!

Ugh I'm sick with worry now. My teaher haven't told me yet and I was supppose to phone her at 4 about next week lessons but she was in a lesson so I have to wait but I have this sinking feeling that I've failed grade 7 again :/

Finally got my pupil's result from 2nd April. I was so worried about this one, but fortunately she passed her Grade 5 clarinet, so I'm very relieved!

Just got my one and only result back, first ever pupil I've ever entered in an exam and she got 140 in her grade 2 Sax!
I am absolutely over the moon. I inherited her from a jazz saxophone teacher and she'd already done her grade 1 jazz the year before and got 135 in that, so I was really worried how she'd do, high expectation from pupil to continue with similar marks etc etc!
SO chuffed! I think she scored so highly because we were pretty much ready to enter for period C last year but having only just started teaching I had no concept of when the deadlines were and missed the boat! That extra term made all the difference

Argh! I ###### hate piano. I really do give up now to be honest. :/
I did both exams and both did contradict each other altoether. Seriously :/

I don't understand what you are trying to say?

Hope you're okay.

I did the exam in November and the examiner said stacttos not crisp enough. My b piece didn't have enough rhythm to make it sound whole my c peice was okay even though there were slips abs my a piece didn't have enough of dynamics etc

This time the examiner said my stactto scalees were over crisp... My a piece was too fast. B piece too much pedal my c piece had slip ups. My aural was all wrong to put it bluntly my sight Reading was too fast for adante and the flow was not there etc

Tell the truth and shame the devil - what did you get overall ?

Sometimes when you spit it out it doesn't seem so bad. After all, the world won't stop turning because you failed an exam (if you did).

What does your teacher say about your playing ? Do you have the same teacher as last December ?

I don't want to point fingers but it's possible that you should change teachers.

I had a teacher up until Grade 7 who didn't believe in technique or aural or theory or anything really except the joy of playing - now this is all very well, and I loved her for it, but I realised at 16 that I was not going to get where I wanted to with her (and Grade 7 had been a struggle) so I went and found myslef a 'traditional' teacher who got me into shape and sailed me through my Grade 8.

Well, it sounds like you've maybe gone from one extreme to the other with the staccato scales.

Where the pieces the same both times? The comments about pieces don't actually contradict each other - they just pick up on different things.

A piece: not enough dymanics last time and too fast this time. You may well have got the dynamics in okay this time, but you obviously played it too fast which probably made it sound less musical, thereby cancelling out the improved dynamics. Rushing is often a sign of nerves or else you may have rushed through the piece because of being over-familiar with it.

B piece: Poor rhythym and lack of coherence last time, to much pedal this time. Sounds like you had perhaps improved the rhythym problem but were usuing the pedal in a way which affected the flow and musicality of the piece.

C piece: Okay but with slip-ups last time (possibly a way of the examiner saying that it was better than the other pieces but not great?) and slip-ups this time - perhaps due to playing under pressure or rushing slightly and making silly mistakes (which you wouldn't normally make) as a result.

Aural: Will improve with practice. May be partly (or largely!) lack of confidence.

Sight-reading: Was rushed and therefore too fast for you to convey the mood of the piece, and sounds like the rushing also meant you had to hesitate more for the trickier bits which interrupted the flow of the music.

I have to say that a lot of this actually sounds like nerves, which made you rush through things and prevented you from making a 'musical' performance, and may not be reflective of the standard at which you can play.

Okay, so you're disappointed with whatever your mark was but, rather than quitting, perhaps you could find some low-key performance opportunites to help you feel more comfortable with playing in more stressful situations or under pressure. This would then help you to build your confidence up again.

If you want to re-take the exam to improve your mark, then it might be a good idea to choose different pieces so that you don't go into the exam with any 'hang-ups' about them. If not, then just take your time with enjoying your playing whilst you move gradually towards the next one, or else spend your time exploring repertoire and forget about exams - there's no rule to say that you have to take music exams, and I know plently of people who have learnt to a high standard without doing exams. Don't quit in a hurry - you'll almost certainly regret it later on.

Hope you feel better soon.

Two nice results back today for the two singers who entered; both distinctions. I am one happy rodent.

Congratulations to all involved!

Mine through this morning, two passes and a merit - not the most outstanding but comfortable marks and pretty much what I expected and I think the students will be pleased.

Only 4 entries this time:

Trumpet grade 3 - pass
Clarinet grade 3 - merit
Clarinet grade 1 - merit
Clarinet grade 1 - distinction

Well done both of you!

Sorry about dragging this to the top again but I wanted to share a very late result I've just received for one of my pupils! It was a pass for grade 8! I'm very happy as it's her second instrument and she was struggling to fit it all in with A level revision as well. She's also my first grade 8!

Congratulations to you and your pupil, Clare.

Well done Clare and pupil!

Congratulations to Clare and to your pupil! quite an achievement in the midst of A levels!