What mark do you usually get 4 aurals? A lot of people seem to be bad at it. You can also talk about average marks for other areas of the exam

about 13 i think. i usually do badly!

QUOTE (clarinetlover @ Nov 20 2004, 10:53 PM)

about 13 i think.

Lucky you!
My aural marks are:
Grade 1 10 marks
Grade 2 12 marks (just passed them *phew*)
Grade 4 11 marks

I was lucky to have music teachers who didn't make the aural tests 'some thing' that is attached at the end of every practical exam. I was always well prepared in advanced. I can't help but feel that this is now a growing case that pupils aren't being prepared fully for the aural tests. Are people just not bothered because they are worth the least set of marks out of the whole practical exam?

i've got a lot better over the years... i used to get about 15 most of the time... i've managed 18 once or twice! i usually get 17 because i rush one of the questions... cant remember which one though, i havent taken any exams since last year...

Looking at the poll results it's very encouraging to see how many are doing quite well at Aural.

As a teacher, I include Aural skills (though not always presented as a formal Aural "test") in most of my lessons. I find, even on the first lesson, many of my young pupils are perfectly capable of passing many of the early grade Aural tests - they just need help to formalise the language of their response and understand more complicated questions.

Grade 6 upwards is, of course, another story and Grade 8 really a big undertaking. However, if you've worked through Aural as you've studied then even these complex tests can become achieveable.

aha i once answered a question and he toke 6 marks off

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I was always well prepared in advanced.

Hmmm. My 'preparation' before my grade 1 exam was "this is aural". Literally 10 minutes before I went into the room. I burst into tears. In my defence I was 9 years old.

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I can't help but feel that this is now a growing case that pupils aren't being prepared fully for the aural tests.

Yup, I feel that too... I am still slowly working my way through book 1 of aural training in pratice. I have grade 6 coming up. *Gulps*

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Are people just not bothered because they are worth the least set of marks out of the whole practical exam?

Well, no. The marks still count, some of us just can't do them.

I always turn a simple answer into something complex.

"the tune keeps be played over and over."
could be changed into:
"The melody possesses a reiterating phrase-an osinato."

What you need is a musical dictionary, i can find lots of long posh sounding words at the flick of a page..
gerbunden=(German) Bound. Used musically in the sense of 'tied' or 'slurred'.
quilisma=((Latin) most important of decorative neums, something like a trill.
tornada=(Spanish) Type of refrain in many of the folk-songs of catalonia.

See. learn a few words and you'l be on your way to sounding like a musical genius. MWA HA HA...