CXC Music (Paper 1) - Set Works

 Date for Entry: (Friday 8th May, 2015)

Actual Date of Online Entry: (Friday 2nd July, 2021)

Dear Diary,

    Today was another Musical Exam for CXC’s/CSEC Paper 1 in Set Works. It was most worrying to me because the notes that Ms. Saunders had given me was some pieces on a flash drive to listen to and notes on them but they were not enough information at all. I really wished I had a teacher or someone who knew the coursework to sit with me and guide me along the way. 

    I reached in school at about quarter to nine and I met up with Ifeaye and he walked me up into the Auditorium just before the bell could have wrung for the morning’s assembly. I showed him the syllabus and some notes on Genres I made over the internet’s definitions and YouTube late this morning, desperate for knowledge and the feeling of failing the subject was so strong in my mind. I did not like that at all. 

    On arriving at the examination room, it was the same Chemistry lab that I did the paper 2 Music exam in also. I find that this was the room I should have done the recording inside of there instead of my room. There was enough tight space like a soundproof room to keep the sound in, even when you spoke, you could hear the loud echo. But I didn’t know that was so. I should have maybe gone and gotten permission from Ms. Lalchan to do the recording there.

    It was a bit easy and then finally, it came to the Set works section. The paper was designed into three sections. One for music literacy, one for musical perception and the last one for set works. The set works were kind of easy, however, the question was designed to match me and then I felt as if I mixed up two of them. Before one of the Examiners left me, Aunty Maureen, told me, “thanks for making me feel special” and she left. That was because I had given her a booklet from the Paper 2 Music exam and the other two examiners, Aunty Janice and Mr Batholomy. I was so happy I met them since in Form 1 in the third term when they had come to supervise the CXC examinations of that year as they always do.

    For this entry, two other sheets of paper are attached with my CXC Time Table for the Examinations. These two sheets show proof that I wrote the exam and were also the backover of the Official Examination Booklet. Somehow, they should have made it perforated so it would be easy to take out but I believe now that the place of the uneven and torn sides where they took it out of the book made it look like history. At least in my history I will cherish this special memory and include some of the hardships as well because it was a journey I went through and succeeded by the mighty touch of God, Amen.

 

Link(s):

1. Official CXC Timetable & Receipt for Paper 1 (All Parts & Sections).

Daryl Zion M. Ali