Edexcel GCSE Music: Component 3 listening, dictation and Section B skills quiz quiz

1 hour, 60 marks

2 hours, 100 marks

1 hour 45 minutes, 80 marks

1 hour 30 minutes, 70 marks

Section A 40, Section B 40

Section A 50, Section B 30

Section A 12, Section B 68

Section A 68, Section B 12

6 to 10 marks, every year

1 to 2 marks, occasionally

20 marks, every year

It does not appear

Guess all the notes as quickly as you possibly can first

Write in the dynamic markings before anything else at all

Fix the metre (beats per bar) and identify the key

Work out the name of the composer of the extract

Three crotchet beats

Six quaver beats

Two minim beats only

Four crotchet beats

Partial credit is awarded for correct notes and rhythms

It is compulsory to write something in every single bar

Blank answers are penalised with extra marks taken away

Leaving it blank does not actually save you any time at all

A full orchestral score

The answer

A skeleton score

A recording to keep

It is completely unrelated to any of the eight set works you study

It is simply one of the eight prescribed set works heard again

It is taken from an entirely different subject altogether

It is closely related to one set work but is not a set work

Describing the two pieces separately instead of comparing them

Writing your answer far too neatly and carefully in the booklet

Referring to specific bar numbers from the skeleton score given

Mentioning the dynamics used by each of the two pieces

Only a long list of every single similarity you can find

A detailed description of just one piece on its own

Balanced comparison plus an evaluative conclusion

An accurate hand drawing of the skeleton score

Write out your complete final answer immediately on the first hearing

Ignore it completely and wait for the very last playing instead

Only listen out for the dynamics and ignore the other elements

Gather information, noting an observation for each element

MAD T-SHIRP

SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)

PEEL (point, evidence, explain, link)

SMART targets