Rockschool music qualifications are tailor-made for the contemporary musician.
Introducing the Associate Awards
Keep Your Progress on Track
If you or your students have successfully completed a Grade 8 Rockschool, RSL Classical or PAA exam, these qualifications look to take performance skills to a professional level.
Complete Accessibility
The Associate Award offers practical alternatives to RSL’s Professional Diplomas and allow learners of any age to continue developing their performance skills beyond Grade 8. All evidence is submitted online for external assessment by RSL by individual candidates.
Practically Focussed
There are no written components to these qualifications. Assessment is solely based on performance, providing recognition of a higher level of technical and professional performance skills.
Post Nominals
Achievement of these qualifications entitle you to use the following post nominal letters after your name at Level 4 and Level 6 respectively: PRSL (Practitioner of RSL) and APRSL (Advanced Practitioner of RSL).
Academically Rigorous
The PRSL qualification (RQF Level 4) is broadly equivalent in terms of performance demand to the first year of a university degree, whilst the APRSL (RQF Level 6) is equivalent to the performance demand of a final year of an undergraduate degree.
Candidate Support
Exemplar materials and indicative repertoire lists demonstrate how these qualifications can be undertaken in a range of styles or genres, exemplifying the standard expected at each level. Submission guidance and information on how to select an appropriate theme are also available to candidates.
