Knowing the Score<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\nThe following guidelines are used by AMEB examiners in each State to determine grades to be awarded for Level 1 and Level 2 practical examinations.<\/p>\n
High Distinction (A+)<\/h4>\n
In addition to satisfying the requirements for an A grading (below), the candidate demonstrates outstanding achievement in meeting the syllabus objectives in all Sections, including performance flair, consistent technical fluency and penetrating stylistic insight.<\/p>\n
Honours (A)<\/h4>\n
The candidate demonstrates an overall superior level of achievement in meeting the syllabus objectives in all Sections, in terms of musicianship, security of technique (including intonation, tone, phrasing, articulation, rhythm), and stylistic awareness.<\/p>\n
Credit (B+)<\/h4>\n
In addition to satisfying the a requirements for a B grading (below), the candidate demonstrates meritorious achievement against most of the syllabus objectives.<\/p>\n
Credit (B)<\/h4>\n
The candidate demonstrates an overall creditable level of achievement, with appropriate development of musicianship, technique and stylistic awareness in accordance with the syllabus objectives. Some unevenness of achievement in meeting the syllabus objectives or between different Sections of the examination, may be apparent.<\/p>\n
Satisfactory (C+)<\/h4>\n
In addition to satisfying the requirements for a C grading (below), the candidate demonstrates more than adequate achievement against some of the syllabus objectives in each Section.<\/p>\n
Satisfactory (C)<\/h4>\n
The candidate demonstrates an overall adequate level of achievement in musicianship, technique and style in accordance with the syllabus objectives. Considerable unevenness of achievement in meeting the syllabus objectives, or between different sections of the examination, may be apparent.<\/p>\n
Not Satisfactory (D)<\/h4>\n
The candidate demonstrates an overall inadequate level of musicianship, technique and style and does not satisfy the syllabus objectives. Often this has resulted from inadequate preparation. Presentation is often hesitant, evidencing technical errors and\/or an inappropriate sense of style.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>I do have one gripe though.\u00a0 When I walked in after my first student, the examiner was telling\u00a0my student that their violin should have been tuned beforehand.\u00a0 What the…?<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0The student’s\u00a0violin WAS tuned beforehand, because I tuned it personally however violins are required to be tuned to the piano that the accompaniment is being played on (aka the piano in the room). Ummmm Ms Examiner, this was a First Grade exam.\u00a0 Only students from 5th grade onwards are required to tune their violins – according to the Manual of Syllabuses.\u00a0 It just gets students off to a bad start in their exam.<\/p>\nI was informed today that the AMEB (NSW) have their pianos tuned every second Monday, and that in theory, if I tune to the piano(s) in the warm up room, they should be the same pitch as the pianos in the examination room.\u00a0 After a brief chat with the gorgeous Maree (the fantabulous receptionist who is always there to greet me each exam session and is always a pleasure to deal with), we tuned up the violin to the grand piano in the actual exam room, then took the violin into the warm up room.\u00a0 There are two upright pianos in the warm up room and the one closest to the doorwas slightly out of pitch.<\/p>\n
Maree then spoke to the Cello teacher (different examiner examining those students – a\u00a0pleasant examiner who would have made a great Santa Claus).\u00a0 The Cello teacher said they noticed a discrepancy in the pitch between the piano they tuned to in the warm up room to the one in the exam room.\u00a0 Maree said she would take the matter upstairs (to the Examining Board).<\/p>\n
My issue was that unless a student is grade 5 or above, the examiner\u00a0cannot tell a student they should have tuned their violin beforehand.<\/p>\n
I am going to do a whole separate post about the warm up room, because the rules about the use of that room seem to keep changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had some of my piano and violin students sit their exams today.\u00a0 Boy am I glad those exams are over!\u00a0 There is so much work and preparation involved in making sure everything is\u00a0perfect, it seems, just to please an examiner.\u00a0 It\u00a0appears today that the examiners my students had were very hard markers.\u00a0 Perhaps with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ameb","tag-ameb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denleymusic.com\/musicblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}