Rara was SO brave. A very large factor in not sharing before is the fact that I felt the chances of her going through with it all, not messing up and crying/ throwing a tantrum, and then actually completing two auditions, was around 0%. We are just starting the SEN process with her. So I'm very, very proud.
I'm also gutted for her. She had a really decent first piece on each instrument. She played the Earnshaw Tarantella and it was amazing... then she lost her place in the music (using a spike retainer for a change, and said the music was too far away) and stopped for around 10 seconds. 
She finished strongly and said the sight reading was great, so that might have been fine, except that her other piece wasn't. She played a brand new composition called Changing Tides, which was atmospheric, but every one of the four shifts (to 3rd and 4th position) was flat, so that's the end of that.
Bravely, she went back in later, but her "Let's try anyway, it doesn't matter, I won't get in so it's just a bit of fun" attitude had kind of morphed into "What's the point?". She played prelude from l'Arlesienne (not knowing at the time that it's Bizet's birthday!) pretty well, then Sicilienne by von Paradis, which is usually set for Grade 4. All the usual squeaky areas were fine, but she really messed up on the home straight. There were two mistakes in the prepared sight reading, and I didn't have the heart to ask about the unprepared.
I really wish she had played two pieces well on one instrument, instead of one on each!! She said she won't be trying again. Tomorrow is another day though... she has another audition, and it's a formality. A bit like getting back on the proverbial horse.