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Exam practice
Timed practice for OCR GCSE Music J536, set out in the board's own sections. Every answer comes with an explanation.
OCR GCSE (9-1) Music J536 is a course from OCR. Component 05, Listening and appraising, is its listening paper.
This practice test covers listening practice on elements, instruments and styles in our own recordings and questions in words.
Practice for the Listening and appraising paper (J536/05). The listening questions use our own recordings on piano, orchestral and band instruments, Indian and African instruments and steel pans. The paper itself plays commercial recordings, which are not used here. Concertos with a soloist and orchestra are not played in this practice test. Greek and Middle Eastern folk music, calypso singing and the samba bateria are not played either. Rock with electric guitars, songs with words, large film scores and video-game music are also left out. Several of these are asked in words in the last section. The melody dictation, the score tasks and the extended answers are not included. The portfolio and the practical component are coursework and are not included.
Exam mode runs a clock of 36 minutes for the whole practice test.
The full practice test holds 32 questions.
Study mode has no clock. It checks each answer as you go.
Exam mode gives 36 minutes for the whole practice test. It holds 32 questions. Study mode has no clock.
It follows the board's order: Elements by ear, Instruments and styles by ear and Questions in words.
Yes. Each answer comes with an explanation of why it is correct.
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