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hi does anyone know anything about wht these tests involve? thanks

Don't know a great deal, but my kids did these v. successfully without any formal preparation- though to be fair they had experience of vaguely similar sorts of questions from the aural sections of ABRSM practical exams.
Basically I think you have to have a good ear, and be able to do things like clap or sing back a short melody you've just heard. You don't need to have achieved high grades, rather be a keen listener.

written or practical? there are two types

Thanks notapushy1. I'm thinking it is an aural one creditcrunched.

If aural then likely to be in two parts:
1. Rhythm - where the child is asked to clap a short phrase (having heard it played twice)

2. Melody - where the child is asked to sing back a short phrase played twice to thm, sing an answering phrase in response to a phrase played to them and sing the lower, middle and upper note of a chord.
Sometimes they ask them to sing the lower part of a two part passage and this is where most children struggle in my experience.

Hope this helps. If you dc has done Grade 3 on an instrument then most of it should be fairly familiar from the aural section in that exam. The singing of the lower part is more like Grade 6 however.