Hi Guys

I know this has been posted many times in the past, but am keen to get an update on this.

Whilst I appreciate that in harmony or melody based questions there is no right or wrong answers, there must be criteria that are used by examiners to objectively assess which answers are better. Does anyone either know these, or come up with their own approximations?

For example when I sat grade 5 I found a marking guide which split the 15 marks down in melodic composition question and which helped me understand what the examiner was looking for. End result was 12/15 on that question and an overall distinction. So although it was not official, it certainly helped.

As always any help is very much appreciated!

I'd appreciate this too if anyone has any info.

Sorry - should have included links for two Grade V examples that helped me.

Thanks to Victoria @ mymusictheory.com for putting these up on the web.

[I presume linking is allowed by the forum rules....]

Example 1: http://musictheorydigest.blogspot.com/

Example 2: http://musictheorydigest.blogspot.com/2010...on-example.html

That is so helpful, Stephen, thanks.

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