HI

Has anyone done GCSE Music with an English examining board?
How many papers were there in the exam?
In CCEA NI there is 3

Aural Perception
Performing
Composition

I'm doing Edexel

Paper 1: Performing 30% (one sole, one composition and an ensemble)
Paper 2: Composing 30% (2 compositions written to a brief from diff. areas of study)
Paper 3: Listening and Appraising 40% (1hr and a half exam answering questions on pieces of different music.)

I did GCSE music with MEG in 1998, it was had a similar structure:

30% Performing: two pieces, one had to be played with at least one other performer;

30% Composing: three compositions in different styles;

30% Listening: a written paper answering questions about music played from a provided tape...

The final 10% you could choose to do 'extra' of one of the above three:

extra performing was sightreading; extra composing you were given a theme and shut in a room for 20 minutes to come up with something based on that; and extra listening was just another shorter, but much harder, written listening paper with tape.

Hope that helps.

I did the course with AQA

I had to do 1 solo performance and 1 ensemble performance. 3 compositions and a final listening paper

Nat

hello

i'm currently doing my exam with OCR

the exam is based on two compositions, three performances and a listening exam.

i think it breaks into:

listening exam = 25%
termianl task = 15%
compostion = 30%
and performance =30%

it's a nice course. one of your compositions has to be based on a performance piece and is part of 'intergrated coursework'

hope this helps?

jaime

Hi Niall,
i did the CCEA NI GCSE Music exam last year (came 2nd in NI!!!). Are you doing it at the moment? What do you think of it? I didn't really like the syllabus much- couldn't stand African Sanctus, although Schubert's Trout Quintet is amazing. I also found it quite hard to relate some of my compositions to the areas of study, although that was totally my own fault- I ended up with a really depressing piece in a minor key that had to be on the theme of 'celebration'! What have you done for your comp?

Ours was on the theme of celebration/special occasion too.
Naomi xxxx