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eponymous_roseExam went extremely well. Freakishly well. Somewhere between 80% and 100% well.
A tip for anyone hoping to write an RCM music history exam: DO THE ESSAYS LAST. As far as I can tell, the 20% in essay questions is just to separate the really top students from the students just trying to pass. Or something. I finished the short-answer/fill-in-the-blanks section in twenty minutes (for 80% of the test); the essays took just over two hours (for 20% of the test). And I write extremely quickly. Also, it was funny to note that I could either get 5% by writing the words "Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei", or by writing a full-length essay on the impact of the motet "Ave Maria...virgo serena" based on the humanistic movement of the Renaissance era. Hm. I'll take the former, please. Sort of an oddly-arranged test, anyhoo.
And, through a stroke of luck, my ignoring of poor little Schubert during my studying didn't hurt me: there was one question about him, worth one percent of the test, that I just happened to know anyway. Phew.
Ohmygoodness. This means that there's a very, very good chance I just earned myself my real Grade 10 RCM certification today! After twelve years of work! Huzzah! :D
A tip for anyone hoping to write an RCM music history exam: DO THE ESSAYS LAST. As far as I can tell, the 20% in essay questions is just to separate the really top students from the students just trying to pass. Or something. I finished the short-answer/fill-in-the-blanks section in twenty minutes (for 80% of the test); the essays took just over two hours (for 20% of the test). And I write extremely quickly. Also, it was funny to note that I could either get 5% by writing the words "Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei", or by writing a full-length essay on the impact of the motet "Ave Maria...virgo serena" based on the humanistic movement of the Renaissance era. Hm. I'll take the former, please. Sort of an oddly-arranged test, anyhoo.
And, through a stroke of luck, my ignoring of poor little Schubert during my studying didn't hurt me: there was one question about him, worth one percent of the test, that I just happened to know anyway. Phew.
Ohmygoodness. This means that there's a very, very good chance I just earned myself my real Grade 10 RCM certification today! After twelve years of work! Huzzah! :D
