Assessment Objectives

In the revised GCE Music specification, students are assessed against three assessment objectives:

AO1: interpret musical ideas with technical and expressive control and a
sense of styleand awareness of occasion and/or ensemble
(performing/realising);

A02: create and develop musical ideas with technical control and expressive understanding, making creative use of musical devices and conventions (composing/arranging); and

A03: demonstrate understanding of, and perceptively on, the structural, expressive and contextual aspects of music (appraising).