Hello
I just took it for granted that you had to wait for your exam result and quite a while really, considering we are in this age of computers etc...
Why do we have to wait....why not tell us on the day...
Is it to build up the required number of failures,distinctions etc...to work out the benchmark?
It could be like a driving test.....so you know on the day....and can drive straight away...
BFN Mike

They usually give you your certificate with the results - I expect that takes a while to print. But I don't see why they can't say pass/fail straight away! Possibly they are worried that it would put more pressure on people.

Someone told me that results were never issued until the examiner has left the area for the examiners safety because some parents aren't too pleased if their child doesn't do well and may take it out on the examiner.

Last week I was accompanying exams and the examiner was still writing reports an hour after the last candidate had left. I think reports go to London so that the results can be checked. Examiners don't have a lot of time and its possible that marks could be miscalculated.

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Mar 21 2005, 06:50 PM)

Why do we have to wait....why not tell us on the day...

That's probably to protect the examiners as Noodle says and to stop people bargaining/complaining to the examiners that wasn't what they did!

It did say in Libretto a while ago (a year or two) that the AB were planning a system that meant one could view one's results online before they were posted, I asked about it on the forum a while ago but there was no reply and the view results option which used to give an error message saying something like 'this feature is not available yet' was removed from the online entry system.

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Mar 21 2005, 06:50 PM)

Is it to build up the required number of failures,distinctions etc...to work out the benchmark?

No, they don't do that.

QUOTE (PlinkPlonkMan @ Mar 21 2005, 06:50 PM)

It could be like a driving test.....so you know on the day....and can drive straight away...

True but you're still allowed to play the piano even if you do fail the exam!

QUOTE (noodle @ Mar 22 2005, 04:04 AM)

Someone told me that results were never issued until the examiner has left the area for the examiners safety because some parents aren't too pleased if their child doesn't do well and may take it out on the examiner. I think reports go to London so that the results can be checked. Examiners don't have a lot of time and its possible that marks could be miscalculated.

Yeah...its always after the examiner has left the area, or after all the examiners have left.Then, they go to London for checking before coming back to you. But you could always be nice to the examiner and ask him/her at the end of the exam. Donno whether anyone tried this before...lol

QUOTE (tzl_tzl @ Mar 22 2005, 11:16 AM)

But you could always be nice to the examiner and ask him/her at the end of the exam. Donno whether anyone tried this before...lol

I don't think examiners are allowed to say anything about the result at the end of the exam. Even in the aural tests they don't tell you if you are right or wrong they just say 'thank you' or grunt!

yeah, i agree,why not telling us the result o that particular day?making us anxious and nervous while waiting for the result.it really seems and eternity before the results arrived.

Hehe, never taken a practical exam before, but 'm sure you're really anxious while waiting. I think it could be a good idea that they post youtr results on the internet before you get your certificate etc. trough the post.

I think its quite fun waiting for the results in a way, I don't think I would want to know on the day, so if I failed, and wanted to cry about the results, I couldnt until i was in the privacy of my own home. Either that or jump up and down and kiss the examiner if I passed. (Which I'm sure they wouldn't appreciate )

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yeah, i agree,why not telling us the result o that particular day?making us anxious and nervous while waiting for the result.it really seems and eternity before the results arrived.

Presume it's so that the examiner can form some kind of opinion over the course of the session? And to allow any wide variations in marks across days/examiners to be ironed out.
This make the Diploma result process take over two months - be thankful you don't have to wait that long!

QUOTE (uberzoldat @ Mar 22 2005, 05:53 PM)

I think its quite fun waiting for the results in a way

Are you serious? When my students results are due, I have panic attacks when I see a postman!!

Everytime the phone rang on the day I worked it out that I was going to get my results, my heart stopped! I did get them that day, and they were good! Thank god!

QUOTE (noodle @ Mar 22 2005, 06:34 PM)

Are you serious? When my students results are due, I have panic attacks when I see a postman!!

thought that might be a controversial thing!

Anyway, imagine you are an examiner: would you want to tell a hopeful faced person that they've failed? I know I wouldnt. I would rather write it all down accurately and post it to them a couple of weeks later (cowardly or not!!)

Some people get very edgy about the exams and results, but I have had a lot of strange experiences over the last few years which have made me think about whats worth worrying over and what isnt, and now I am very relaxed towards the exams and enjoy the anticipation of receiving the results.

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I 've been waiting for my theory grade8 result for about three months already and they still havn't post it to me!!!

QUOTE (pianist_1210 @ Mar 30 2005, 04:18 AM)

I 've been waiting for my theory grade8 result for about three months already and they still havn't post it to me!!!

Perhaps you should ask your teacher to chase it up.

Compared to other examination results like UK GCSEs and so on the ABRSM are pretty quick. I don't think 6 weeks is unreasonable to wait for the theory result either.

Is it correct to say that practical exam results are staggered and the theory results are sent out all at once?

The theory results are sent out in alphabetical order of centre. So people who sat their exam in Birmingham will receive their results before Wolverhampton. The difference is only a few days, though.

The board told me this after I rang to enquire why one of my students hadn't received her results. She had taken the exam in Truro because she was on holiday over half-term when the exam had been held.

It is my understanding from colleagues who exam that at the end of a long day "at the desk" they then trog off back home or to wherever they are staying and start the process of double-checking all the forms for incorrect totals, marks which don't match the remarks, spelling errors etc. If something's wrong on the form it has to be re-written. It's not all done when the last candidate leaves the room.

Then the forms go off to London for further checking and moderation to ensure the examiner hasn't made any errors and for the results to be entered into the ABRSM computer and the certificates produced. (How else can ABRSM get all it's statistics in order?)

It seems to me that this is a lot of pressure on one examiner as it is. Expecting him/her to come up with the goods on the day, there and then, would put a considerable burden on their shoulders.

Having occasionally acted as a steward at our local centre it's not unusual (if its a day of fairly low grades) for an examiner to do 27 exams in a day. Imagine all the writing, all the tests, all the remarks and marks that adds up to. I bet they get tired and make mistakes sometimes and I guess that's why we have to wait for results. To make sure we get the correct result.

It would be awful for a candidate to be told they'd passed and then when ABRSM London added up the form they'd failed (or vice versa), though the latter scenario would, presumably, be happier. I have also seen parents want to talk to the examiner after an exam to query something about how the exam was conducted. This isn't, strictly, allowed but examiners vary in whether they respond to such requests or not. I could envisage very nasty situations if a candidate came out who'd failed and who had an adult with them who was naturally aggressive - I really feel in the interest of examiner/steward safety, waiting is better.

Most exams you take you have wait for a result if you are going to get any reasonable amount of feedback. I think the Boards that give results on the day (music, dance etc) tend more to use tick boxes with fairly easy marking systems - much less personal. I am content with the way it is and, perhaps those who aren't, need to find a music examining board with "instant" results. I'm sure there are some but as I don't use them for my own pupils I cannot really say (sorry if I ought, as a teacher to know, but I don't!).

I 've been waiting for my theory grade8 result for about three months already and they still havn't post it to me!!!

Thats a long time! Did you do it in UK or abroad? If you did it in the UK the result must have gone astray. The results of the theory exam 4 weeks ago are due within the next fortnight or so.