Violin exam disaster

[KittyMcKitty]

All v miserable here DD had Grade IV violin today. She gets so nervous and for some reason was particularly bad today. Pieces went really well. Scales, arpeggios and chromatic were fine BUT she had a mind blank with the dominant 7th - she knows them so well but froze and only played 4 notes (the right notes). She felt sigh reading (usually a strength) was bad and aural (her weakest element) was OK.

Looking at the mark scheme am I right in thinking that the absolute max she can get for scales is 13 as dominant 7th was incomplete?

Dd is devestated - she should have passed comfortably but it looks like she will fail

Kitty that’s great

Yay! That's good news.

Rather late so wanted to give a further update now I have dd’s Mark breakdown in case it helps anyone in similar position.

Whilst dd didn’t play the complete dominant 7th she still got 17/21 in the scales section. Her “disastrous” (her words) sight reading 16/21 and most pleasing, for the first time ever!! She passed the aural with 14/18 - she is thrilled with this!

So all in all a vet pleading, solid merit

Well done to her! I thought that sounded like a merit at the time. :)