A Level Music Technology: Preparing Students for Success in the Written Papers

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This new course focuses on methods by which student responses to the differing types of questions they will face in their Component 3 and 4 written examinations can be improved.

All types of exam questions will be considered in terms of their requirements, common mistakes that students make when answering them and strategies to improve the quality of answers produced. Special focus will be upon creating good responses to unfamiliar music questions, extended response questions.

In light of the 2022 exams, emphasis will also be on best study skills and revision practices for students in the run up to the MT exams key areas to go over, preparing students for the exam, exam techniques. Opportunity will be given for teachers to scrutinize exam-type responses using marking descriptors and levels. This course is up to the minute and will respond to any changes in the 2022 examinations.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Scrutinise questions and question types the different forms of exam questions, levels and responses
• Take away clear guidance why students can under-perform when answering exam questions
• Gain easily applicable strategies that will enable students to produce better quality answers to all forms of exam questions
• Explore the means of producing good responses to unfamiliar music questions, and to write high quality extended essay responses. higher-level responses to essay and long-answer questions
• Take away practical guidance and advice on study skills & revision in the run up to the written exam, including retrieval and recall practices
• Gain exam tactics, exam techniques, a confident knowledge of what it is the examiner is looking for