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She started preparing for the exam in September with a view to doing it in December 2010 but the teacher forgot to enter her. When I asked him for the date of the exam he said he'd forgotten to enter her, then said she wasn't ready anyway. I thought it was unprofessional to (a) forget and (be) to suddenly say she wasn'... |
No indication in run up that she wasn't ready - I would gladly have paid for more lessons to avoid this. |
She's going to be heartbroken and it's going to be hard to persuade her that it's worth trying again sad. |
CelebratedMonkey Mon 04-Apr-11 21:18:47 |
Poor thing. I barely scraped through grade 1 when I was in secondary school and I remember being terribly embarrassed at my low score. Thing is, I was dreadful and rarely practised. Though your daughter is younger it sounds as if she would be at a higher level. I would try a different teacher. |
Honeymum Mon 04-Apr-11 21:20:19 |
elphabadefiesgravity - thanks just read your post. |
You mean either teacher was fibbing that she did ok on the day, or the examiner was unduly harsh. |
I am dreading talking to her teacher. |
Honeymum Mon 04-Apr-11 21:22:35 |
She's practised for 10- 15 minutes a day at least 5 days a week. I think she practised as much as we could hope for given her age. |
I think she needs a new teacher. |
She's going to be upset about that too. |
seeker Mon 04-Apr-11 21:34:30 |
I wouldn't do anything until you see the report sheet. It's possible that froze on the aural, scales and sight playing and dropped a lot of marks there. But you dont have to pass all the elements - dd got below the pass mark for her sight singing in her Grade 5 recently but still got an overall merit.. |
Generally speaking they do their best to pass people. You start with full marks and they take them off for each thing that goes wrong rather than the other way round, if you see what I mean. |
I'm really sorry but I was completely shit at the violin and can't carry a tune to save my life and somehow I passed Grade 1, if your daughter really does enjoy playing maybe it's worth just her having lessons for the enjoyment value rather than to pass exams. |
2BoysTooLoud Mon 04-Apr-11 21:37:38 |
My father teaches music and was horrified when a pupil of his failed grade 1 recently. Wrote letters etc to examining board but don't think got far. I do think examiners vary. |
My father did not avoid issue as so concerned child might give up music - she didn't. |
On another note the violin is difficult to play well when nervous- though from what you have said that was not the case with your daughter. |
pinkhebe Mon 04-Apr-11 21:41:35 |
my son only got 5 marks above the pass mark in his double bass. The comments were really harsh. Luckily he took it all in good humour. (he was nearly 10 when he took thw exam) |
Honeymum Mon 04-Apr-11 21:45:46 |
I agree, Seeker. I will try to keep my powder dry. |
I just can't believe she couldn't get enough marks on the pieces. But I feel that the teacher should take some responsibility if she wasn't prepared for the other elements of the exam. If he doesn't, then he will have to go - I can't work with him if he doesn't admit that he didn't prepare her properly, at least to som... |
What I don't get is how positive he was on exam day and how catostrophic the outcome. |
2BoysTooLoud I hope this teacher is horrified too. It's a bloody awful situation to have to break this news to poor dd. I would rather have withdrawn her than face this. Sorry, I am a bit overwrought! |
seeker Mon 04-Apr-11 21:49:28 |
What did she say about the bits the examiner wasn't there for? Just remembered tha dd failed the scales bit of grade 3 clarinet too - but she knew she'd screwed up and told me as soon as she came out. Still passed the exam though. |
lucysmum Mon 04-Apr-11 21:55:34 |
if her teacher genuinely thought she should have passed why not put it in the past and move on ? no requirement that she should pass grade 1 before doing grade 2. You could also get another teachers view on her playing. Are you musical at all ? I am a bit and I know if my DD has prepared well or not for an exam and tha... |
maggiethecat Mon 04-Apr-11 21:59:18 |
Honeymum, I feel for you. As others have said wait until you see the results sheet in order to make sense of what's happened. |
Although she may have played her pieces beautifully there are 3 other elements to take into account so although you do not have to pass each element you must have enough marks and you cannot rely too heavily on the pieces. |
The other thing you mentioned was stopping and starting - this is something my dd was told repeatedly in the run up to her exam last year - never stop and start again - you must play on (I think that may be true of pieces, scales and sightreading but I remember teacher emphasising this instruction for her pieces). |
She's young and hopefully will bounce back. |
Honeymum Mon 04-Apr-11 22:08:40 |
Seeker - she said she'd not been able to do the sight reading. I don't know if she said anything about the scales and aural. |
Lucysmum - I will have to ask the teacher about what he heard/thought at the time. I am not musical, no. But I can see that she's really improved over the months and played the pieces pretty well. I am concerned that me and the teacher aren't having any real conversations about how she is doing. He's not showed any con... |
Maggiethecat - I don't know yet if she stopped and started, just that she talked through the pieces which suggests to me she was stopping and starting. |
Will find out more tomorrow. |
Thanks all - will report back tomorrow. |
seeker Mon 04-Apr-11 22:17:22 |
Ah. If she couldn;t do the sight reading at all that might be the reason. If she only screped a pass on the other elements - and stopping and starting in the pieces won;t have helped, a very low mark on the sightsinging could have pushed her below the magic 100. |
singersgirl Mon 04-Apr-11 22:26:03 |
DS2 (9) recently got 102 for his Grade 2 piano (2 marks over the pass mark) and his teacher was horrified. All her pupils got 20 points below her predictions, including the music scholar for whom she had confidently predicted a distinction (she got 108). I think she complained overall about the marks and was very angry... |
The comments on DS2's report didn't stack up either. For example, he failed the scales but her comment was something like "Not always even but all were readily attempted" and he got the pass mark for the aural but according to the report only got one thing wrong; he got full marks the same week for the aural in his Gra... |
We've just ignored it and moved on. He was pretty upset as he really was much better than that. |
Pterosaur Mon 04-Apr-11 22:36:27 |
They are very intimidating exams, particularly after the teacher/accompanist has left the room. |
I don't think teachers always take that into account (they were probably pretty good at doing them themselves). |
My DD2 took her first exam, grade 2 cello, last year, and the teacher came out happy with her pieces, but she had a bit of a meltdown during the scales. She pulled herself together on her third try at one (I'd accidentally wandered into earshot at the wrong moment - I could hear the fear sad). She got through it, but I... |
DD1 also underperforms in music exams (she's perfectly all right in academic ones). She's supposed to be doing grade 5 violin this summer, but I want to be sure that she's well above the required level to pass, as she finds the exams such an ordeal. She doesn't want to stop taking them though, so we plough on. |
elphabadefiesgravity Mon 04-Apr-11 22:36:56 |
I would be very concernted at her having talked through the pieces, talking would mean the examiner couldn't hear properly and she is not giving a performance if she is talking. |
Talking whilst playing is a big no no. |
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