Quicky online test "Could you pass GCSE music" - just for fun

ToneControl

http://www.classicfm.com/discover/music/pass-gcse-music-quiz/#5JiJHCJ8R0tq8FXz.97

I just about passed , got 12. 

stickyfiddle

14. A* boo yah.

digitalscream

I barely passed first time round, so I very much doubt it.

EricTheWeary

12. Some of it I had very little idea. 

robinbowes

Funny story about my 'O'-level Music (yeah, before GCSEs)...

The music teacher strongly recommended I join the school Senior Choir as he felt it would help me with the oral part of the exam (specifically, the sight-singing). I declined as they rehearsed on Friday lunchtimes and that clashed with hockey practice (sidenote: I'm sounding like a Darkness song, here!).

Anyway, guess who was the only candidate to get 100% in their sight-singing?

R.

robinbowes

I got 15, btw.

axisus

I lost the will to live waiting for the first video to load on my iPad. Gave up

Sporky

I got 12. My inability to identify trombones cost me dearly, as did the flaky videos (or, rather, my lack of patience waiting for things to restart playing).

bbill335

I got 10. That wasn't representative of the GCSE Music test I did 7 years ago. I got an A overall, but that was probably down to my performance/composition elements. I also did my musically illiterate brother's composition for his Music GCSE 4 years later. Why he picked music I'll never understand.

paul_c2

I got 15, I thought I did worse but I got 15 in the end.

koneguitarist

I can't believe I passed with 13! 
A couple of lucky guesses in there though!

viz

19 didn't get the cor anglais. 

koneguitarist

viz said:

19 didn't get the cor anglais. 

I still don't know what that is? 

Arktik83

12 here.  Had no ideas about the actual "fortissimo" etc so that was guess work!

viz

koneguitarist said:

viz said:

19 didn't get the cor anglais. 

I still don't know what that is? 

It's the inner bit of an apple.  

Emp_Fab

13 for me.

digitalscream

Huh. 14, apparently "something in the region of an A*". If that's even remotely true, I weep for the new generation's education.

bbill335

The fact is that no music GCSE exam is purely classical, film and popular music is just as big a part of the listening test as classical. ClassicFM thinks every Music GCSE student is a listener? Or is their test favourable to their listeners? 

digitalscream

bbill335 said:

The fact is that no music GCSE exam is purely classical, film and popular music is just as big a part of the listening test as classical. ClassicFM thinks every Music GCSE student is a listener? Or is their test favourable to their listeners? 

In fairness, it was when I took it - they basically refused to admit that anything good happened in music after about 1901.

bbill335

digitalscream said:

bbill335 said:

The fact is that no music GCSE exam is purely classical, film and popular music is just as big a part of the listening test as classical. ClassicFM thinks every Music GCSE student is a listener? Or is their test favourable to their listeners? 

In fairness, it was when I took it - they basically refused to admit that anything good happened in music after about 1901.

We had Surfin' Bird and 80s Clapton in mine! That was about 7 years ago.

Thing was, being 15 years old, I didn't yet hate Family Guy as I do now. Our music exam was the day after they'd aired the Family Guy Surfin' Bird episode on TV, so when I heard that opening line, I turned around to look at my mate (who I knew had seen the Family Guy episode) and his face was spam pink with stifled laughter. Made the whole thing memorable.

digitalscream

bbill335 said:

We had Surfin' Bird and 80s Clapton in mine! That was about 7 years ago.

Pffft, kids. I took mine in 1992. I had to work pretty damn hard to make them admit that the electric guitar is a genuine musical instrument; they wanted me to play cello instead.