Grade 7 Excellent performance

Demonstrates in a highly consistent manner: excellent perceptual skills in response to music, excellent and secure knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and a sound use of musical language to reflect thorough critical understanding; excellent performance skills and/or excellent compositional skills.

Grade 6 Very good performance

Demonstrates in a most consistent manner: very good perceptual skills in response to music, very good and secure knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and sound use of musical language to reflect mostly competent critical understanding; very good performance skills and/or very good compositional skills.

Grade 5 Good performance

Demonstrates in a consistent manner: good perceptual skills in response to music, good knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and mostly sound use of musical language to reflect some competent critical understanding; good performance skills and/or good compositional skills.

Grade 4 Satisfactory performance

Demonstrates in a fairly consistent manner: satisfactory perceptual skills in response to music, some

appropriate knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and mostly appropriate use of musical language to reflect some critical understanding; satisfactory performance skills and/or satisfactory compositional skills.

Grade 3 Mediocre performance

Demonstrates: mediocre perceptual skills in response to music, some knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and some appropriate use of musical language to reflect partial critical understanding; mediocre performance skills and/or mediocre compositional skills.

Grade 2 Poor performance

Demonstrates: poor perceptual skills in response to music, little knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and little adequate use of musical language to reflect limited, if any, critical understanding; poor performance skills and/or poor compositional skills.

Grade 1 Very poor performance

Demonstrates: very poor perceptual skills in response to music, very little, if any, knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and very little, if any, use of musical language to reflect very limited, if any, critical understanding; very poor performance skills and/or very poor compositional skills.