Being reasonably new to playing the clarinet I was woundering how to best structure my practise time. I currently:

Scales (all the one for my current plauing level and any that I have just learnt)

Pieces (The three pieces I am preparing, any new pieces I have looked at with my teachers and a selection of other to ensure I cover most of the notes I know)

Scales (again all the ones for my level and any I have just learnt)

Currently I practise about 4 - 5 time a week for about 50 -60mins each time(I have only just increased it to this over the last couple of weeks). Does this look appropriate? Could I be doing things in a better way? Oh to put things in perspective I am going to take my grade one this session (November) I have been playing about 3 months.

Wow! The length of time you are committing is immense considering you're working for your first Grade! You must have a lot of stamina - I wouldn't have coped! It sounds like you will do very well!

Generally If I have the time I will do about an hour a day (my stamina is pathetic.). If I don't have much time, i.e. lots of coursework, I tend to focus on scales and studies I am doing at the moment, and perhaps the more ropey bits of my pieces.

I find it easier to set targets.eg "I will play the List A piece without stopping with all the dynamics", and if it takes 20 minutes great! I can sit and have a coffee! Then I can go back if I have time and set another target later on. If it takes an hour though, I could re-assess whether I was being ambitious. If not, I'm "having a bad day" and I carry it over to the next day!

That's pretty much what i do. I always finish by playing a piece that I enjoy and finished a while ago just to finish on a high note (no pun intended)

I practise my peices in the order that i will play them in the exam, then i practise the scales and then my peices again I practise about 2-4 hours a day

I practise what I feel like practising, for however long I can practise for! I don't have a time limit and I don't have a routine. If something needs more work, I might sit for an hour and play that and ignore everything else.

i play the flute and i practise every day until my shoulders and back ache wich ranges frm about 10mins-an hour!

I agree with that statement!

Anyways, when i practise i don't go straight onto scales because i find it makes my embouchure (sorry if i spelt that wrong) tense, and the the note is being formed from my mouth instead of my stomach, if you get me? I do a sequence or whistle tones to warm up.

Then i do peices and scales (in no particular order).

Pieces, then scales, (sometimes), then stuff for rehersals

Im a bit of a study perv me! I like a good tricky study that involves lots of scale passages and arpeggio type stuff.....maybe Im just weird. When I have time (which is about once every 2 months) I tend to do some long notes to warm up, then scales or scale-studies, then 'piece-studies' (ie ones that sound nice!!) then pieces. In fact, I think I mmight go do some now. Got some new music and a new study book! YAY!
My practise never lasts more than an hour - found it very difficult to practise for more than an hour a day leading up to my final recital a few years back....I also like to play with the tv on for some reason. Bad habits.

I play with the TV on. A really good pianist at school said that his teacher said that it's not such a bad thing practising whilst reading or with the tv on coz it means you don't concentrate too hard on one thing, which leads to mistakes when you don't have as much concentration as the day before!