Music theory - Best revision and practice material ?

[Tun55]

Hi all,

DD will be sitting her ABRSM grade 5 theory exam in early November. She had lessons with her teacher for 2 terms but we recently moved away from the area.
What’s the best way to revise everything and practice? I’m thinking of ordering past papers from 2015 onwards. Is that good enough?

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Sounds reasonable to me. My son has been given past papers by his teacher so we haven't had to do the ordering but he tells me he has done the last 3 or 4 years' papers recently.
Good luck to your DD.

Be aware that there were some changes to the syllabus and exam format from 2018. The biggest was taking out the writing rhythms/tunes, and they've also made the musical terms multiple choice. They produced some practice papers by adapting the 2017 papers, so there are those plus the 2018 ones (I think there are 4 papers for each year, and eight ought to be plenty for the time you have) . There are details on the ABRSM website.

Use tonesavvy and musictheory.net as online resources - they have key signature tests/intervals/notes in all clefs etc etc etc also building chords as well as ear training. Both websites are free and have loads of stuff on there to support the written exam.