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01 August, 2023
Graded Music Exam Updates
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Graded Music Exam Updates
Please bookmark this page to keep up to date with changes and amendments to RSL’s graded music exam guidelines, formats and procedures. Updates will be listed in date order, with the most recent overriding any relevant previous entries.
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1. Recorded digital exams
Order of components: As well as existing guidance, we’ve clarified that candidates should not split technical exercises across the exam – ie. they should be presented as one single continuous presentation (in the order shown in the Grade Book).
Learn more about our Recorded Digital Exams…
2. Free choice pieces, adapted and benchmarked repertoire
We’ve clarified (to address perceived misunderstanding / confusion) that accredited free choice pieces (eg. vocals wider repertoire or pieces taken from other current RSL syllabuses) are not considered benchmarked repertoire.
We now accept a lead sheet as sheet music for FCPs. For a useful description of what a lead sheet is, click here…
Learn more about Free Choice Pieces…
3. General information
All candidates entering exams will be provided with a PDF with our general graded music exam information.
You can also find this available on the website here…
All GME candidates are deemed to have read and understood this information.
4. UCAS points
Clarification that graded certificates carry UCAS points as well as graded exams and performance certificates.
