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Trinity vs. RIAM

  • 21-11-2014 12:56pm
    #1
    Flyingbird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 ✭


    Hello,
    at the moment I'm starting to prepare for the examinations for violin and piano, I want to try to get a as high as possible grade in both instruments. I havent done it before, because as foreigner I never came in touch with the irish/english grading system. I looked up the two examinors, the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity London, and noticed that the difficulties for the same grade are extremely different... Trinity seems to be way harder than RIAM. Is this a known thing, how is this justified? Obviously the grades are not comparable and maybe even useless for college application... So, if I want to apply for a music course, should I rather aim for a trinity grade 6 (as i.e. grade 6 is required in Cork), or do riam grade 8?


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  • #2
    bunnyarmstrong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭bunnyarmstrong


    Flyingbird wrote: »
    Hello,
    at the moment I'm starting to prepare for the examinations for violin and piano, I want to try to get a as high as possible grade in both instruments. I havent done it before, because as foreigner I never came in touch with the irish/english grading system. I looked up the two examinors, the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity London, and noticed that the difficulties for the same grade are extremely different... Trinity seems to be way harder than RIAM. Is this a known thing, how is this justified? Obviously the grades are not comparable and maybe even useless for college application... So, if I want to apply for a music course, should I rather aim for a trinity grade 6 (as i.e. grade 6 is required in Cork), or do riam grade 8?

    If it's purely between Trinity and RIAM, I'd go for Trinity, but if you're doing it to get into college, I'd go for the Associated Board (abrsm).

    They're just more internationally recognised as an examining board.


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