Hi all. Has anyone had results from this exam session? I am really, really pleased as I have just had my first ever adult pupil that I have taught from a 'total beginner' take grade 1 and - even though she felt the exam went badly, she got a merit!

Congrats!
How long did the results take to come? only 4 days since my exam...but last term results only took 13 days...so not THAT long to wait hopefully...

Congrats gards!

Congratulations, gards.

I've had my TG results, which were mainly as expected. But the real surprise was my Grade 8, who got a merit. This is the same pupil who failed Grade 7 (AB) catastrophically just 18 months ago, mainly because of severe exam nerves. She switched boards and passed Grade 7 with TG a year ago, and has really come on since. I was especially pleased that one of the comments for her sight reading was 'Confident playing'. I would never have predicted that a year ago.

Thanks SueHM!


That's a huge improvement in a relatively short time. You must be so proud!


The results took just 11 days - I was amazed when I got the email saying results were online!

Congratulations Gards and Andante in C.

One my pupils took an exam on another instrument ( = with another teacher), and got his results in not much more than a week. (actually he's pretty pleased - 141 for gr3 cornet at 8 years old).

Mine are tomorrow so its a bit early to be looking for results...

One of my adults who I was quite nervous for, received his Grade 6 Oboe result yesterday - he passed with 68 (TG), which was better than we'd hoped for!

My ABRSM candidates took their exams on Friday, but they're all pretty safe candidates, so all being well it'll be good news in a couple of weeks. Also have one grade 5 theory result to wait for, again, should be pretty safe!

Yes! All passed, some with merit and distinction! The results came through in 10 days - was absolutely terrified going onto the site to look at the results, especially given that this was my first experience of putting students in for exams.

I did my grade 1 trombone this morning and got 130 Yes - my result took a whole 4 hours to come through...!!!


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that's fantastic! well done!

Well done! I had that same nervous, but very excited, feeling when I logged in for results!

Grade 2 sax result from 21st Nov. High pass. He wasn't a particularly strong candidate so I'm very pleased. Also very happy with how quickly the results came through!

Congratulations everyone!

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I'm very disappointed - I've just had the results for my grade 2 pupil, and I feel they are a little low for the pieces....I'll see what the mark sheet says, but I really felt that the pieces were better than the mark they got - unless something went really, really wrong in the exam, which I don't think it did.....

Well done to all who has had pupils pass!

Yes, I have had similar experience (and I'm still waiting for the mark sheet). Luckily I had 2 different candidates play the same piece so I can compare - one got 20, the other got 25.

The candidate who got 20 suffers terribly from performance nerves but... I feel they both played the piece superbly (in my humble opinion) so am thinking that the examiner didn't agree with my interpretation (which I think a little harsh for a grade 2 piece)... candidate 2 still got a distinction but I'm curiously waiting to read the sheet as you are...!

Just had my AB results and I'm disappointed too: both got lower marks than expected and lower than they have for previous grades. I'll have to wait for the mark sheets for the details.

I just saw that my results were online - from last Thursday! That's my quickest ever in the UK.

Really pleased - my Grade 3 boy, who is really laid back and I thought would only scrape through, got a good pass and my two Grade 1s got 125 and 132.

Wow- just had results back- they only took the exam last Friday so only 7 days!! I'm absolutely delighted with my grade one pianist who got a whopping 141!! She's over the moon- especially as she got full marks for scales

Can't believe how quick it is now- when I was younger taking my exams it would take months!

Well done everyone else!

Many congratulations - what a great result!! I think I'm going to have to get all of mine to work even harder on scales. I'd love to see some of them getting full marks.

Just had my AB results which took 10 days to come through - quickest ever time so far!!

Grade 2 pupil got a distinction - 142!!!! She got full marks on piece A and sight reading....VERY PLEASED AND PROUD!!!

Congratulations to everybody!!!

Mine were pretty quick too - 9 days. Merits and distinctions so very pleased with those

As we all seem to be getting our practical results so much quicker this time, I wonder if the theory results might come out quicker, too. I always think a month (or sometimes longer) seems SO long for pupils to wait.

My results only took 7 days. I'm so pleased they all passed. I was pleasantly surprised as one of my pupils burst into tears when she was asked the scales and they all said they stopped somwhere in the pieces.

Some impressive results this time!
I haven't had anything quite as impressive - but have just heard that my young grade 1 girl, whom _ on this site _ 6 weeks ago I aired my concerns about failing (illness and grammar test had halted all progress for several weeks) and asked for opinions on deferring/cancelling exam, PASSED WITH 117!
I'm worried that she will be a bit disappointed, as she is very clever and good at everything she does, but I am very pleased as 6 weeks ago I feared a fail was on the cards!!!

Mine has just come in and she got 128 Merit!
Best of all, she hates sightreading and passed with 17!
Onwards and upwards!
Barbara

Daughter just got her grade 6 cello result and is very disappointed, having passed with 115. While this is a solid pass, her average mark for previous cello exams is 136! She thought she'd done badly in the supporting tests, but in fact it is the marks for the pieces that have let her down (21,23,22). We don't have the comments sheet as yet. No doubt it will make for interesting reading. Whereas it is tempting to think the relatively low marks might reflect the difference in marking criteria between Grade 5 and 6, she has passed Grade 6 on two other instruments with distinction, and these marks for her pieces are significantly worse than any she has previously been awarded on any instrument or singing, so it's all a bit puzzling at the moment. Her accompanist thought the pieces went well, and she certainly played them beautifully in the warm up room. Now she is disheartened and upset, and saying she doesn't want to see her cello teacher (who doesn't know the result yet) ever again...........

Hugs!! Sorry about this it does happen that way from time to time. I'm sure she'll come to see it in perspective but it will be difficult for her just now.

Aw... You'll have to see what the mark sheets say, and take it from there.

Well done to all who have passed so far...

Just got my two practical results - two merits.

A week and a day - thanks AB - this does seem to be an improvement.

I have to say that as others have commented, the marks for the pieces seem on the low side, especially for one candidate. However I have yet to see the marks sheets. But the marks for the pieces are very 'average' and I'd not have expected these two - quite different - candidates to be within one mark of each other overall.

Hlaka, my daughter was like that last session. She got 137 for Gr 5 and 112 for GR 6. She wanted to give . She thought it was atrocious and didn't want to tell her teacher (she had 3 distinctions for Gr 3, 4 and 5). She has got over it now and is happy playing again. It really gave her a knock back. She wouldn't even read her mark sheet at the time.
Hope your daughter recovers soon!

Well, I've had the mark sheets and I have to say the marks were a little low when compared with the comments. I'm especially sorry for the Grade 5, who was taking her last exam in this country before returning to Australia to live, as 118 was a very frustrating mark to get!

Results online just 6 days after our exam session!!!!! Thanks, AB. All private pupes distinctions (I KNEW stuffing the examiner full of mince pies would pay off!). Just waiting on school results but am so happy for my sproglets.

Pwoud Bag x

Many congrats, Bag!!

What Bag has modestly failed to say is that one of the marks was 145...

Nowt to do wi me really - I just give them a wee prod in the right direction.

Shuffles

Bx

Hmmm!!!! *understatement, sis*

wow, fantastic results Bag - congrats to you and your pupils x

No, really. Tis all I do.

(OK, whilst wielding a big stick and a cattle prod and wearing a smile usually found residing inside a padded cell...)

Bx

Lol!!! (And she's STILL being modest, guys...)

Just read your results Bagpuss. Wow!!

It really has little to do with me - they're just an exceptional bunch. The sole school pupe got 128 for G5 flute so that's jolly for her too!

Bx

Well done!



Well done Bagpuss! You are very modest, and I'm always very impressed with your work. Don't think I've ever seen the fruits of your labour, despite being reasonably local, that I'd really like to see one day...

Oh no!! Anyone can get marks like that

Congratulations I'm sure you and your pupils have worked very hard.

Probably unitl a few months ago I was of the opinion that results were all down to the pupils hard work and determination. At the higher grades it's as much due to the teacher. Guidance is absolutly vital beyond Grade 5 and probably essential before if you can get it.

Beth's Grade 5 Sax result comment talked about her original interpretation of a piece, I think she got 29 for it. It was ALL down to her 17 year old teacher.
Dora

Emsoboes last Sax result was down largely to her teacher but also to her Piano teacher. Her young teacher is a Jazz specialist and had her playing one of the pieces in a style leaning towards Jazz. Her Piano teacher spotted and sorted it. It wasn't major, had she not had all the correct technique in place couldn't have been resolved so easily, but shows how much a good accompanist can help too.

very pleased with my results this term, only had 3 entered:

Grade 1 Singing 136
Grade 5 Singing 135
Grade 2 Piano 124

Particularly pleased with the piano as she broke her finger several weeks before and had only been able to play about 10 days before the exam, then she turned up on the day and she was coming down with flu!! We had considered cancelling but she thought she would give it a go...she will be VERY pleased we did

Got my pupils today- only 2 pupils-
Grade 1 -clarinet- merit 126
Grade 5 clarinet- merit 124

I am really pleased- the Grade 1 is a little 7 year old who lost a a bottom front tooth before the exam (and the other tooth was wobbly). She got neary full marks in her aural!
The Grade 5 only did her Gr 4 2 terms ago and she wasn't going to do her Gr 5 until next term as she was going to do a piano exam. We brought the exam forward by a term as she wasn't ready for the piano exam- so I'm really pleased with her too.
Results came in under 2 weeks- very impressed ABRSM.

Results came in quicker than I expected - 10 days, nice.

Not so nice: only entered 1 student, my first exam entry ever, and she's come out with 100!

I knew she wouldn't do amazing: she's come from another teacher, it's been a long time since she last did an exam and we've been working on lots of technique but often it has been quite slow going. She was keen to do the exam (so was Mum - who wanted her to do it in summer but I refused to enter her because she just wasn't prepared).
She practices hard but she's a memoriser rather than a reader, hence the slow going - we have to un-learn a lot of practiced in mistakes, although this is getting better. Obviously I am teaching her to look and listen more, I'm not a teacher who takes shortcuts by sweeping things under the rug. That said, the exam needed doing and she certainly wasn't underprepared. Nervous maybe but she knew everything to a good standard. She says the exam went well, and I assured her Mum she would get a good pass (i was expecting 110-120).

How do I now explain a result like this? Maybe she just played badly on the day, maybe the examiner was difficult to please. I'm disappointed for her but more worried what her Mum will say!!