This is a debatable question. Answers vary from teachers to students. For me it works like this. I believe that exams like Trinity/Rockshool/ABRSM need to taken up by students if they do wanna learn music notations and reading. Reasons being :-
1) It helps stick to a deadline for learning. Or else, there are various reasons that students tend to go slow in their learning process and thus once an exam is taken up, no matter what, the students learn to stick to deadlines.
2) The exams are prepared to stay in line with instrument courses making sure that the students develop overall in all music skills and not just reading notations.
3) Exams now assign credit marks to students that can be utilised in different schools and universities across the world.
4) These certificates are recognised worldwide by many universities and schools as they are gaining more popularity by the day.
5) Exams help provide a benchmark to learning that is on common grounds throughout the world. For eg, it is easier to understand that a student has completed Grade 1 Trinity praticals than understanding a fact like a student has been learning to play the piano for 2 years now and is "good"
Although I do support exams, I do make it clear to my students that exams are not to gauge whether they or good or bad musicians, but to help them assess themselves with regards to how much they have improved in their music skills. There fore I strongly advise my students and their parents to refrain from considering the exams as a competition.
1) It helps stick to a deadline for learning. Or else, there are various reasons that students tend to go slow in their learning process and thus once an exam is taken up, no matter what, the students learn to stick to deadlines.
2) The exams are prepared to stay in line with instrument courses making sure that the students develop overall in all music skills and not just reading notations.
3) Exams now assign credit marks to students that can be utilised in different schools and universities across the world.
4) These certificates are recognised worldwide by many universities and schools as they are gaining more popularity by the day.
5) Exams help provide a benchmark to learning that is on common grounds throughout the world. For eg, it is easier to understand that a student has completed Grade 1 Trinity praticals than understanding a fact like a student has been learning to play the piano for 2 years now and is "good"
Although I do support exams, I do make it clear to my students that exams are not to gauge whether they or good or bad musicians, but to help them assess themselves with regards to how much they have improved in their music skills. There fore I strongly advise my students and their parents to refrain from considering the exams as a competition.
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