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Post by ~*~Ruth~*~ on Jan 11, 2006 16:21:19 GMT
in my school we do OCR but every other school nearby seems to do WJEC (a welsh board) so i'm just curious to see what everyone else does.
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Post by Matt on Jan 11, 2006 17:19:11 GMT
i think we do OCR aswell. either OCR or AQA... either way some funny sounding woman is always saying the instructions...
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Post by tremolo on Jan 14, 2006 2:44:46 GMT
well we do edexcel i think but I haven't got much information yet about the examinations
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Post by ~*~Ruth~*~ on Jan 14, 2006 9:12:15 GMT
i think we do OCR aswell. either OCR or AQA... either way some funny sounding woman is always saying the instructions... on ours it's always a very funny sounding man who talks really slowly. |
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Post by fluteandbassoon on Jan 23, 2006 20:10:34 GMT
I am currently studying for EdExcel.
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Post by tremolo on Jan 24, 2006 13:50:33 GMT
Cool, I do that. The music staff gave us some information on GCSE Music today, so I'm going to choose music!
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Post by tremolo on Feb 12, 2006 2:34:20 GMT
double post i know, but my mum said i can't take music because i already have grade 8 and thats already more than the requirement for GCSE, so she said it's pointless to take music in GCSE. any thoughts?
by the way, it's already past the deadline, so i have to hand it in first thing on monday, but i might be able to change my mind later.
thanks to that, i have to take mandarin instead. urgh.
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Post by Matt on Feb 12, 2006 10:10:45 GMT
well, to give you an idea of the quality of gcse music, you don't really need to be able to read music to enter  and some people in our class still can't find G Major on a keyboard. the entry req for A level is G5 and/or gcse music, so it might be advisable to just go straight to that as you'll get seriously bored in gcse music... |
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Post by ~*~Ruth~*~ on Feb 12, 2006 11:03:39 GMT
but i actually find gcse music quite hard in some parts like the composing, but i gather you're quite good at that. If I went in to a level without gcse, i'd probably find it really hard but then you're different to me.
was there any point to my post? i'm not sure lol!
i think i'm basically saying you could probably manage going straight into A level. what subject are you taking instead of music?
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Post by tremolo on Feb 12, 2006 13:58:03 GMT
mandarin as i said. it sucks
by the way, for the 'A level' our school is actually doing something similar called IB, so it might be different.
The mark scheme is 30% for performance (no problem really), 30% for composition (haven't done much of that so far but should be ok), 40% listening (urgh) so it's a lot different from the graded exams. The music teachers said the standard they need is only grade 3-4.
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Post by Matt on Feb 12, 2006 15:39:45 GMT
the composition isn't too bad as long as you pick the right areas of study. if you do do music, do serialism as one of them and use as many different ways to vary it as possible; and do ground bass/rondo form as it's really structured and you can't really go wrong as long as you follow all the rules (and copious amounts of ii-V7-I cadences!)
grade 3-4? too high. for a good performance you might need that but otherwise simply being able to spell 'music' to put it on the form is good enough.
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Post by monkey laydee on Apr 13, 2006 14:08:30 GMT
I am currently studying for EdExcel. Me toooo |
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Post by AnnaBanana on Apr 20, 2006 16:22:24 GMT
I think at our school we do OCR, and our music teacher won't take anyone who doesn't actually have lessons on an instrument or singing. And alongside the GCSE she tries to get everyone up to grade 1 theory, though most people don't take the exam. Which could be a laugh seeing as I'm about to start working through the grade 6 theiry book.
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Post by wowposter on Nov 12, 2008 8:09:48 GMT
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and some people in our class still can't find G Major on a keyboard.