On Sunday 9 March 2025, AMEB (NSW) held their annual presentation ceremony at UNSW to honour students and teachers who excelled during 2024. Deputy CEO of NESA and deputy chair of the AMEB (NSW) board Paul Daniell acted as master of ceremonies for the event. 

680 people attended an afternoon of music and speech performances along with the conferring of AMEB diplomas and teaching awards. 223 diplomas were conferred, with 7…

Jade Park sat for her first trumpet exam with AMEB (NSW) at the age of 7. Over the next decade, she successfully completed twenty AMEB exams across six different subjects.  Jade’s AMEB journey culminated with receiving the Licentiate of Music (LMusA) for both oboe and trumpet in her early teens.

The Sydney Morning Herald recently published an article about the fear of public speaking. The article shared that Chapman University in the USA published a survey that cited the fear of public speaking to be just behind a fear of sharks and ahead of a fear of snakes and spiders. In the UK, fear of public speaking was the third most common fear after a fear of heights and spiders.1

The study says between 60 and 70 per cent…

The NSW Government funds a Creative Kids program as an initiative to encourage NSW children to participate in the arts and explore their creativity.

Parents, guardians and carers can apply for a voucher with a value of up to $100 per calendar year for each student aged 4.5 to 18 years old enrolled in school. The voucher may be used with a registered activity provider for registration, participation and tuition costs for a…

AMEB (NSW) is pleased to announce a new and improved video exam submission process commencing from the Video Exam Second Session (Session 21). Please read the following carefully before enrolling.

The enroller is to upload directly to AMEB Connect:

• video recording
• exam…

AMEB (NSW) recommends that all enrollers using YouTube should review their account from time to time and remove old videos that are no longer required.

• All videos from previous years should be removed.
• Please do not delete videos uploaded in the current year until the end of December, as stated in the Guidelines on the …

AMEB (NSW) required all videos to be uploaded to YouTube with an Unlisted privacy setting to protect the candidate’s privacy. Child welfare and online safety has always been a priority of AMEB (NSW) so we will always evolve our processes to support child online protection policies.

In recent weeks YouTube has changed the enforcement of their Child safety policy to disallow presentation of photo ID on all videos uploaded to…

Teachers who consistently receive impressive exam results are more than just talented music makers with excellent communication skills – they are also meticulous when it comes to detail.…

It is important that enrollers understand what is required in this slightly different exam format. Please click here for information that will…

New set works will be introduced from 2020 for:

• Theory of Music - Grades 5 and 6
• Theory of Music - Licentiate Diploma (Musicology)
• Musicianship - Grades 5 and 6

Theory of Music

Grade 5

As part of this changeover, questions relating to Set Works will be added to Theory of Music Grade 5, which has not previously had these questions. Currently students only encounter Set…