AMEB grades compared to Study Scores?

[jaymifsud]

Hey everyone! 

I'm just wondering approximately what grade AMEB (or equivalent) practical grade you were and your Music study score.

Thankyou! I'm just really interesting to know where I sort of stand.   

[TrueTears]

The correlation is very marginal, VCE music has completely different standards than AMEB.

Personally, I was L mus in year 8 and got 42 in year 11 piano solo performance.

[pi]

The correlation is very marginal, VCE music has completely different standards than AMEB.

Personally, I was L mus in year 8 and got 42 in year 11 piano solo performance.

:O

[jaymifsud]

Wow! Impressive, I wish i was that amazing haha! I hope I do that well! Thanks for the reply by the way!

[ninwa]

About as much correlation as there is between IQ and ATAR score... (i.e. not much)

[ninwa]

To expand on that:

the performance aspect is always going to be very similar, since there's only really so many ways you can judge a performance.

However, an AMEB exam is pretty much all performance and no theory/general knowledge. VCE music, however, is at least 50% theory (I think? I did what used to be called music solo performance - in 2005 - so I have nfi what it's like now. Haha oh god I'm ancient).

Those who are great at AMEB exams might be so because they are extremely musical performers. Being good at the theory is a whole other issue though.

The exception is if you have done A.Mus or L.Mus, because those exams have significant general knowledge portions. Also obviously it's compulsory to have passed grade 5 and 6 theory respectively so generally, people who've done the diploma exams would have a good grounding in that respect too.

I say generally because there are always exceptions, e.g. although I have my LMus I got 1 point above the fail mark for grade 6 theory (BOOYAH) because I hated that shit and was terrible at it

But in general, there is not a lot of correlation between the two.

[jaymifsud]

Oh okay thanks! That extremely helpful! I've recently started theory at grade 4 in hopes that it would be helpful to my VCE music (obviously haha).

[nisha]

I completed Grade 6 Piano with a B+ and then skipped seventh grade to learn 8th grade pieces the next year. I ended up with a 29.

[pi]

I completed Grade 6 Piano with a B+ and then skipped seventh grade to learn 8th grade pieces the next year. I ended up with a 29.

I also got a B+ in Grade 6 *high 5*


And then I dropped it

[paulsterio]

According to my friend, who did his Diploma at the ABRSM in the UK, VCE music is actually extremely difficult to score well in and the study score is not really indicative of your skill as a musical performer, and that it doesn't get scaled up anywhere near as much as it's worth. He also mentioned that a similar analogy is that if you're good at maths and you do well on your competition/olympiad papers, it doesn't mean that you'll ace methods and spesh.

[frankish]

did music performance last year.. did my Amus Piano in 2010 and ends up with a SS of 40
 (School Assessment : [A+] Performance Exam: [A+] Theory & Aural exam: [A] )