Options for most practical exams include the Comprehensive and Repertoire formats. Visit the Subjects section of our website (www.ameb.nsw.edu.au/subjects) before you pay for your enrolment. This will ensure that you choose the correct subject code for each of your candidates and avoid any additional fees or nasty surprises on their exam day.

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The repertoire exam format is an exam option available for preliminary to grade 8 as an alternative to comprehensive (traditional) grade exams. 

Aural tests, sight reading, general knowledge and technical work are not examined in this type of exam. The candidate instead performs a program of four or five works only (depending on the grade and syllabus requirements), and the result achieved is based purely on…

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…

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…