Exciting news!
I got my mark from my flute exam a few weeks ago. My teacher called to tell me that the results were posted. I was so disappointed with what I got.
In my 'mock exam' I did with my teacher she gave me a 76%, and she told me that was with her deducting for every possible thing she could. I wasn't devastated, and I knew that I'd come out of the actual event with better.
But I only got a 71% in my real exam. And I was not impressed. Maybe I even cried, but we don't have to talk about that.
This week my teacher e-mailed me to say that she was going to appeal to get my mark changed. She was sure that the examiner had marked my pieces wrong. It seemed like she marked it out of 20 instead of 25, and that brought my mark down quite a bit.
I was talking to my teacher today and she said that out of all the years she has had students in the RCM exams she has never made an appeal. She can stand low marks, but the comments I got on my pieces didn't correspond with the 16 and 17.5 out of 25 she gave me.
This afternoon I got a call from my teacher.
The appeal was granted!
The examiner admitted that she was incorrect, and my mark has been changed!
It'll take them a while to change it on-line but it has been changed. And I am so thankful for that.
Now I can happily say that I came out of my Grade 6 Practical Flute Exam with 80%.
Here is a brief list of some of the other smallish victories of the moment:
The house is almost void of those pesky little fruit flies that have been plaguing us for the past month.
I made my transcript a couple weeks ago, and I'm not worried in the least for these last 2 years of high school.
Katlin is coming to a wedding with me tomorrow so I won't have to party all on my lonesome.
I have my piano and flute lesson times set for this season.
This blog is doing great so far (we just need to get Savannah connected and then we complete).
Rachel, I'm SO glad the exam marks are working out better...it's such a disappointment when the casual errors of others cause such frustration. It's pretty much impossible to tell oneself 'it's only an exam,' cause you work so hard for it and you subconsciously expect a decent return which can be obliviated by the stroke of another's pen. Even if the deserved mark is not as sweet as it might have been if it had been marked correctly from the beginning, I hope it will eventually lend you that warm, satisfied feeling that you've worked so hard for. If it isn't there yet, I've found that an extensive supply of chocolate, tea (haha), and friends are the best remedy. Wish I could be there to celebrate with you my dear :)
ReplyDeleteCONGRATS!! 80%, wow! A+ for Rachel:)
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