My instinct tells me to stick to ABRSM to do my first performance diploma, but my teacher is advising to do LCM on the basis that AB has harder standard. I'm stubborn and want to achieve the highest. Have others found that they need more than one attempt to succeed?
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My instinct tells me to stick to ABRSM to do my first performance diploma, but my teacher is advising to do LCM on the basis that AB has harder standard. I'm stubborn and want to achieve the highest. Have others found that they need more than one attempt to succeed?
Viking,
I think it's safe to say that whichever exam system you use, a diploma is jolly hard work, and that the standard required is high. This is the point at which you're assessed as a professional, rather than an amateur. There is no such thing as an "easy" diploma.
The AB do publish their pass rates, and (from memory, can't find the stats right now) the percentage of people who don't pass is pretty big - so yes, sometimes it does take more than one attempt. That's largely due (I suspect) to an underestimation of what a diploma entails. Getting a grade 8 distinction is a good starting point, but it won't carry you through to a diploma pass automatically.
The big issue (regardless of exam board) is that this is NOT grade 9 (or grade 10 or 11), it's a whole new way of studying and performing. You need to think a lot wider around your music, research your works, the composers, their history and context, their structure etc, etc, etc. That applies as much to a recital exam like ATCL as it does to the (more technically based) DipABRSM or the LCM diploma.
Good luck, and enjoy your music, whichever exam you choose to study.
Cheers
Katyjay
I think it's safe to say that whichever exam system you use, a diploma is jolly hard work, and that the standard required is high. This is the point at which you're assessed as a professional, rather than an amateur. There is no such thing as an "easy" diploma.
The AB do publish their pass rates, and (from memory, can't find the stats right now) the percentage of people who don't pass is pretty big - so yes, sometimes it does take more than one attempt. That's largely due (I suspect) to an underestimation of what a diploma entails. Getting a grade 8 distinction is a good starting point, but it won't carry you through to a diploma pass automatically.
The big issue (regardless of exam board) is that this is NOT grade 9 (or grade 10 or 11), it's a whole new way of studying and performing. You need to think a lot wider around your music, research your works, the composers, their history and context, their structure etc, etc, etc. That applies as much to a recital exam like ATCL as it does to the (more technically based) DipABRSM or the LCM diploma.
Good luck, and enjoy your music, whichever exam you choose to study.
Cheers
Katyjay
There is a short thread on this subject here
Elidatrading (and others)
Please could you tell me how you magage to refer back to other threads when you say there is a short thread on this subject here. I would love to be able to do this sometimes but don't know how.
Thanks for your help.
Please could you tell me how you magage to refer back to other threads when you say there is a short thread on this subject here. I would love to be able to do this sometimes but don't know how.
Thanks for your help.
Aha!
No, it's easy. Just turn up that thread in a separate window, copy the url from your browser, then come back to your post and hit the "http" button. That will ask you to type in the url, so you just delete the http it gives you and paste in the url you want. Then it asks you for a name so you give it a title. After that it does it all for you.
Liz
No, it's easy. Just turn up that thread in a separate window, copy the url from your browser, then come back to your post and hit the "http" button. That will ask you to type in the url, so you just delete the http it gives you and paste in the url you want. Then it asks you for a name so you give it a title. After that it does it all for you.
Liz
Hi elidatrading
Thanks for that. I shall try it later and hope I do it right!
Thanks for that. I shall try it later and hope I do it right!
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