I am starting this thread to see if any of you have similiar examiners....just for fun(cause I am so bored now)...lol Anyway, here are my examiners.

A thousand apologies if I spelt some of their names wrongly. I can't remember that into detail.
Grade 1: Colin Atkinson
Grade 2: Coln Tipple
Grade 3: Peter Gould
Grade 4: * I can't remember at the moment*
Grade 5: Susan Sheppard
Grade 6: Hugh Bowman( I am not quite sure)
Grade 7: Joan Dixon
Grade 8: Jean Cooper-Smith ( I remember now)

What about yours?

Blimey you remember irrelevant details!

I have a friend who remembers every single flight he's ever been on... the airline, the plane, whether it was turbulent...!!

That's so weird

How many has he been on???

Loads!

He listed them all for me one time... I was like !

He just really likes planes...!

It IS kinda weird...

All I can remember is:

Grade 1: Man
Grade 2: Woman

Can't remember their names, though!

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I don't think I ever find out the names of my examiners.

There is usually quite an elaborate writeup of the examiner's name, qualifications and achievements outside the exam studio where you wait to enter, if you all noticed it.

I can't remember the names but I know that:
Grade 3 flute-woman
Grade 4 Flute- Man (not very nice)
Grade 3 Bassoon- Man (Quite nice)

Nope, it is never up in my centre.

I think they do that to put you more at ease, the examiner is human. But I don't see the point, I only noticed it this time and it did not help me one bit, not thinking that their aliens of something but it doesn't put me more 'at ease'. Anyway, would you call your examiner by their name.

"OI Bill, I'd like to start with the scales please!"

Same...

1: Nice man
3: cant remember...
5. Nice (/overly fakely nice) woman
6. horrible man

Can I remember the examiners?

My dear Tzl_tzl, I can barely remember the exams!

My memory of the whole ordeal is blanked out almost as soon as I leave the room.

And before anyone suggests that this is due to old age, it's always been the case that I couldn't remember exams afterwards - even when I was a young 'un.

Cheers

Katyjay

all i can remember is:

grade 7 flute: horrible bald man
grade 8 flute: scarily cheery man

grade 4 violin: man with brown hair and glasses

I'll add on to my list:

Grade 1: Funny voice
Grade 2: Nice

EDIT: Did I just say list?! (see signature if you don't understand the joke!)

Car Expert

I've done too many ABRSM exams to remember even if they were male or female!!!!!

The only one I remember is the most recent!

I remember my Grade 6 because I had a moderator in the room with the regular examiner and he (the mod) was a little fat and cheery and looked like my Physics teacher at that time.

Was someone talking about remembering irrelevant details?

I don't remember any! Not even if they were male or female, except for my G5 piano it was a man, he asked me the wrong scales (like scary diminished 7ths!) and I was too scared to tell him. He came out when I was finished and made me go back in to play the right ones!!!

Oh dear, that sounds quite traumatic SuzyMac

I've had...
Grade2: A nice man with a stripy tie
G3:A fake kind of nice lady with glasses
G4:A scary guy with a huuuuggggge grin
G5: A mean man who didn't smile!!
G6: A nice man with a red and green tie
Does anyone know/is related to an ABRSM examiner like as a person...

I got an unexpected rehearsal at dealing with that the other week when my teacher was asking me scales without looking at the syllabus....

I just said 'Erm, that's not on the list is it?' (Could have played it but would you?)

I only remember the bad ones, ie the man who laughed at me in grade 6, but i only remember because i dont have any good bits to concentrate on as there werent any!

I know an examiner, he's my dad's best friend. And a girl in my band's dad is one too. One is the nicest teacher I know, the other is very very scary...even his daughter says so.

All my examiners (20 odd) have been male. I only remember the one who looked as though he was wearing lipstick...

When I did my Grade 1 Piano my examiner was called Bernard Barker!
At the age of 6 I thought that it was just the most hilarious thing ever!

Oh Oh examiners names .. sorry I have the examiner to beat all others.

My grade 3 Speech and Drama examiner had the wonderful name of Mr Cockin ( yes spelt like that!)

My teacher was very careful to practise "good Morning Mr Cooo- kin " with me, being very careful not to pronounce the second 'c'. We arrived at the exam and Mum checked "incidently how does the examiner say his name " the moderator replied "Oh just as it's spelt ###### - in "

I said "Sir' instead as I couldn't trust myself not to laugh

grade 2 violin : man
grade 4 violin : woman
grade 5 violin : man
grade 6 violin : woman
grade 2 piano : man
grade 5 piano : woman

its weird....i got distinction if the examiner is a man and merit if the examiner is a woman
now i`m waiting for my grade 6 violin result...which examed by a woman.

I only remember my grade 8 and Dip. examiners.

My grade 8 examiner was great - middle aged man with glasses, made me laugh in the exam: we came to the aural tests, and he sat at the piano and said 'Right, if you could stand there facing towards me, if you can bear to look at me' . He then chatted to me at the end, asked me what I was doing - it was the day after my last A-level exam, and I told him I was going to university to study computer science. He said jokingly 'Oh, you're one of those are you' .

My Dip specialist examiner was Dr Andrew Padmore. Very nice chap. The name of the non-specialist escapes me at the moment; he was quite quiet though and let Dr Padmore more or less lead the viva, just adding one question at the end.

I can remember every single one of my driving test examiners though .

Can remember examiners for my pupils much better than for my own exams. When you are being examined I think you are too nervous and focused on the exam to take in the examiner's name particularly.

Can remember barely anything about exams. Never had a woman for an ABRSM exam, only for my county violin exam I had Sue Taylor.
I don't know how you remember their names!!

For anyone kicking themselves thinking they could remember the name of their examiner if they saw it each of the Annual Reviews has a list of all examiners that examined during the year concerned. You'll need the patientce to look through them all though!

I've had three men and one woman examiner (in that order) I can't remember their names, but when I find out the name of my examiner I usually type it in to google to try and find out who they are, usually works too .

I can't remember the names!

Grade 1: Nice ish woman
Grade 2: Can't remember
Grade 4a: Evil man
Grade 4b: Really nice man who totally put you at ease
Grade 6: Very polite woman (but not particularly friendly)

Gosh, looking at that list, I've taken more exams than I thought!

I think I've taken 17 ABRSM exams!!

17??? Good grief!

2 Dudley music service exams
2 ABRSM (well technically 1, but twice)
1 Trinity

I just done:
2 Guildhall
5 ABRSM exams

Me : 4 ABRSM
and though they're not music, 3 Guildhall drama...

2 ABRSM exams

<!>And that's the lot!<!>

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All I know is that my grae 4 examiner was: Ian Jones

17 yes!

Not that many!

How many did you have?

I've done *thinks*

4 BMG exams (all violin)
7 ABRSM exams (3 violin, 3 piano, 1 flute)

I think...

And a few ballet exams a long time ago!

5.
- Big man with beard, shouted a lot. Failed me for going through a puddle too quickly
- Quieter man
- Woman who was new
- Quieter man again
- Jolly nice chap

As for ABRSM exams - 13 practical (piano 1-8 & Dip., violin 1-4) and 5 theory exams.

My 3rd one was one of those....! *grin*

I can't remember the first two at all, although I *think* they were both chaps...

Gd2 piano-can't remember,woman,kind of young
Gd3 piano-old man,smiled when he saw me shivering(the room was too cold!)
Gd4 piano-woman,can't remember much
Gd3 violin-Brenda Dykes,plays the clarinet too(I think!) and she's on that annual list!

I'm not sure how many I've taken, but the first one was in 1986, so let's count them up:

Clarinet 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Recorder 5, 7, 8
Theory 5, 8
Flute 5, 7
Sax 5, 6, 7
Piano 2, 4, 5, 6
Singing 1, 2, 4
Violin 3, 4
Viola 4

So that's 26, just over one a year. I certainly don't remember all my examiners, or even whether they were male or female, but if I saw some of their names it would ring bells. I did have a lovely one called John Railton for grade 6 clarinet, who made a point of having a chat with us and signing our music. He's always stuck in my memory.

BTW all of the above were ABRSM, apart from grade 4 clarinet, which is also the only one I failed! But I failed because I was entered unwisely, not because it was Trinity.

I'll be 30 in a couple of years and I'm considering retiring from exams then. It's stressful enough watching my students take them - but we'll see!

the only thing i remember about my examiner was that he was mean.... i got a 101 for my grade 3 violing and my teacher was shocked :'(

My Grade 3 clarinet examiner was Colin Tipple (your grade 2).

for my grade 1 all i can remember is that he was bald, rude, but also very kind, cos i got a distinction off him

my grade 4 - another evil, nameless man (there've been a few in this thread )
second sitting of grade 4, a much nicer, and more conversational man - Mr Brian Head was his name
grade 5 - very nice woman, Mrs Libby Crabtree
grade 6 - rather abrupt, unfriendly woman, Ms Elizabeth something (began with a T)
grade 8 - nicer woman again, quite conversational, Ms Chryssides (or something like that)

i suppose on the whole that's not such a bad deal

I've only done three grades.

Grade one: some strange woman that reminds me of my biology teacher last year. Rather prudent, with shoulder-length brown hair and quite a furrowed look. Didn't give me great marks, but I think I was entered too early. Just said 'thank you' and gave a half-smile each time I did something.

Grade two: Lovely red-haired, quite young bloke - really friendly and charismatic. Chatted with me for about five minutes after the exam - talking about school and music! Gave me a fabulous distinction as well - and really praised me after each piece.

Grade 4: Fabulous old grandad-type bloke! Very 'with-it' though! Lost his pen when I was doing the sight-reading, so I got about 2 minutes! Very chatty once again, and asked a lot about me as well as giving me easy aural questions. Gave me a distinction too!