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A
Tutorial on the art of taking music exams by musician Amonn AL-Mahrouq
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- Check the syllabus to ensure you
have practiced all requirements.
- Choose your pieces well in advance
of the exam date.
- Try not to panic.
- If the examiner sais something you
don't understand, ask.
- Always try to keep going if you
make a mistake.
- Practice performing your technical
requirements and pieces to an audience, so you are familiar with the
pressure.
- Always try to put yourself under
exam conditions before the proper exam.
- Know your music.
- Be prepared for the examiner to
stop you in the middle of a piece.
- Always have your instrument checked
over by your repairer prior to the exam.
- Always take spares to an exam -
woodwind players take spare reeds, ligatures and mouthpieces to the
exam in case one breaks. String players, spare bows etc.
- Always arrive in good time.
- Try not to panic.
- Smile at the examiner when you
enter the room.
- Always be confident.
- Always speak clearly and
confidently.
- Don't forget music or your
instrument(s), reeds or mouthpieces.
- Always take a pencil.
- Don't begin playing immediately,
wait for a few seconds to compose yourself.
- Decide if you will begin with the
technical elements or pieces first before you enter the exam room.
- Listen carefully to the examiner.
- An examiner can mark only the work
he or she hears.
- Try not to panic.
- Take your time.
- Take a spare pencil, rubber and
ruler into the examination room.
- Always write in pencil.
- Always read the question twice.
- Come back to questions you are
unsure about.
- Try to answer all questions.
- Set yourself time limits for each
question.
- Always write clearly.
- Remember to check through your work
before you finish.
- Always try to put yourself under
exam conditions before the proper exam.
- Answer the question you can do,
first - come back to the harder ones.
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