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Latest exam updates

Performance Grade booking

The next booking period for remotely-assessed Performance Grade and ARSM exams opens in February. For details, see our dates and fees page.

Music Theory exams – March 2021

  • Online Music Theory exams (Grades 1 to 5) – we are cancelling the online exams planned for 16 March. Exams in May and June will go ahead as planned.
  • Paper Music Theory exams (Grades 6 to 8) – we will not be offering these exams in March. The next exams at Grades 6 to 8 will be in June 2021.
  • Grade 5 Music Theory requirement - from 1 January to 30 April 2021 only, candidates can take Grade 6 to 8 Performance or Practical exams without first passing Grade 5 Music Theory. From 1 May 2021, the Grade 5 Music Theory requirement will return with flexibility about timing. If you receive an email asking for your proof of prerequisite, please ignore this. We will still release any results in line with the arrangements outlined here.

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Face-to-face practical exams, session 1 - USA

Due to current COVID restrictions, we will not be opening our normal booking period in January for face-to-face practical exams in April-June. We hope to provide a practical session later in the year, but need to keep all dates under review as we can only accept bookings if COVID travel and government restrictions are lifted. We will provide an update nearer to the next booking period.

Welcome to the National Children’s Orchestras' Mambo!

Our Mambo was created last summer by 330 children who between them recorded and submitted over a thousand videos. The music was specially written for us, by Ryan Linham, so that we could have lots of fun with both the music and the videos. At NCO our oldest players are 15 and our youngest are just 7 years old. Our Mambo is less than 4 minutes of music, that took hours of practice, recording and editing, but we managed to create something AMAZING that we are super proud of. Beware! It is a bit of an ear worm! Enjoy.

Lots of love from all at NCOGB

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