OCR GCSE Music Integrated Portfolio and Practical overview quiz quiz

Listening and Appraising 40%, then the Integrated Portfolio and Practical at 30% each

Integrated Portfolio 50%, with the Practical Component and the listening exam at 25% each

Integrated Portfolio 30%, Practical Component 30%, Listening and Appraising 40%

All three components weighted equally at roughly 33% of the total marks each

An ensemble performance and a composition written to an OCR-set brief

Two separate compositions and no performance work of any kind at all

A written listening exam sat under timed conditions at the end of the course

A solo performance and a free-brief composition

A solo performance and a composition written to a free brief the student sets

An ensemble performance and a composition to an OCR-set brief

A listening test made up of aural questions on recorded extracts

Two solo performances on the same instrument and no composition work

Playing all of the right notes accurately on your own instrument

Choosing which pieces of repertoire you would like to perform

Balancing your part and keeping in time with the group

Recording the take cleanly with good quality studio equipment

Making the piece as long as you possibly can to fill the time

Using as many different instruments together as you can manage

Recording the whole piece as loudly as the equipment allows

Developing an idea rather than restating it

Moving a musical idea up or down into a completely new key

Putting the same melody over different chords

Playing a musical idea backwards from its last note to its first

Shortening all of the note values so the idea is heard much faster

Area of Study 1 only

All five Areas of Study

Areas of Study 2 to 5

Areas of Study 3 and 4 only

A practical performance played live to a visiting examiner

A composition task completed under timed exam conditions

A spoken oral interview about the music you have studied

Score-reading questions using staff notation

The order of the exam timings, telling you exactly how long to spend on each section of the listening and appraising paper

The elements of music (Melody, Articulation, Dynamics, Texture, Structure, Harmony, Instrumentation, Rhythm, Tempo)

The five Areas of Study in the order that you should revise them before sitting the written exam

The marking criteria the examiner uses to award the marks for a composition you have submitted

A single melodic line sounding entirely on its own with nothing else

Two or more independent melodic lines woven together

A melody with chordal accompaniment

Several different variants of one melody all sounding at the same time

It is required by the exam board rules, so you would lose marks automatically if you did not use it

It is much faster than actually listening, so you can finish the whole paper with plenty of time to spare

It avoids the need to listen to the extract at all because you can simply guess the likely answers

It works on any music, guaranteeing a spread of accurate points rather than relying on impressions

Listing as many separate features as you can possibly spot without explaining any of them

Naming a feature and explaining its effect, with evidence from the extract

Describing only the general mood of the extract and nothing else about it

Writing as much as you possibly can to fill all of the answer space given