ABRSM Theory Examination (Grade 3)

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Actual Date of Online Entry: (Saturday 12th June, 2021)

Dear Diary,

    Today I went to the University of the Southern Caribbean (U.S.C.) with the Steel Ensemble members in our school uniform. We were not attending school today. We were all going to write ABRSM’s Music Theory Exams. For me, I did Grade three that day. All of the others did Grade 1.

    I took every minute of the examination going through the paper. Miss Richardson was outside going through questions some of the students had. I was the last one of the Ensemble to come out. I went to the Stationary store afterwards to photocopy some music exam papers.

    When I got back home the lady at the store had done the copies badly. I noticed that the same bad feelings like a spirit with misery and conflict had come upon me as from the last exam experience. This spoiled the whole rest of my day. Few of the exam questions were very tricky. I hoped that the marks would be enough to award me a distinction.

(Update)

    Some months are doing the Grade three examination, the results sheet and the certificates came back. When I saw the overall score on my sheet I felt like my heart skipped two beats. It was merit. Just looking down at the Merit written on the certificate, made me feel as if I had failed the whole exam. I know Miss Richardson had to get me out of that thinking quickly because of how hard I was personally going down on myself.

    One wish of mine was that Miss Richardson could have given the certificates to Mr. Mahase to give them to us during the morning assembly instead of announcing the results alone. That might have felt nice and awarding.

 

Link(s):

1. ABRSM Grade 3 Results & Certificate

Daryl Zion M. Ali