Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Time Management: Demonstrating planning, execution, and review according to an agreed schedule.
• Communication Skills: Demonstrating effective communication in personal, social, and professional roles.
• Ethical Practices: Formulating and applying ethical practices and values in the music profession through case studies.
• Occupational Health and Safety: Defining and explaining occupational health, safety, and environmental issues in music practice through case studies.
• Entrepreneurial Skills: Applying entrepreneurial and project management principles in case studies.
• Finance Management: Explaining finance management skills in personal finances using appropriate scenarios.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Performance Check: Checking performance for consistency and accuracy against musical score or stated criteria.
• Preferred Version: Explaining reasons for using a preferred version in terms of standard musical practice.
• Technical Exercises: Performing technical exercises (scales, arpeggios) at a commensurate degree of difficulty.
• Instrument Mechanism: Understanding and applying the working mechanism of own instrument/s.
• Instrument Maintenance: Maintaining own instrument/s according to accepted practice.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Musical Notation: Identifying and notating intervals, melodies, triads, quartads, and rhythmic patterns in staff notation.
• Rhythmic Skills: Clapping/tapping rhythmic patterns and playing diatonic triads, chromatic quartads, and quartads in harmonic progressions.
• Listening Skills: Listening to rhythmic and cyclic patterns and identifying them in notation.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:

• Musical Analysis: Selecting musical examples, identifying parameters for analysis, and applying appropriate approaches for music analysis.
• Interpretation: Describing and interpreting music based on applied parameters and analysis.
• Conclusions: Drawing conclusions on adherence to or departure from conventions in musical styles.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Research Skills: Locating appropriate sources, understanding research methodologies, and selecting a specific methodology for researching a musical topic.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:

• Case Studies: Evaluating the influence of events on music, analyzing music's role in influencing attitudes and actions, and studying the relationship between music and the economy.
• Aesthetic Analysis: Analyzing aesthetic and philosophical stances in musical expression and comparing representative styles through case studies.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:

• Ensemble Performance: Interpreting and following conductor's instructions, assessing intonation accuracy, and collaborating within an ensemble for appropriate performance.
• Presentation Skills: Applying presentation principles for a professional performance to concert standards.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:

• Programme Notes: Compiling informative programme notes, demonstrating knowledge of repertoire, and presenting tutoring material at different graded levels.
• Historical Practices: Demonstrating critical understanding of historically-informed performance practices related to the chosen instrument.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 9:

• Research Evaluation: Investigating musicological and ethnomusicological theories and methods, developing research proposals, and managing data collection processes for research reports.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 10:

• Music Analysis: Analyzing music genres over the past 100 years, describing aesthetic debates in South African music, and analyzing major composers and compositional techniques.
• Composition Skills: Composing and scoring music idiomatic for various settings, arranging music for different contexts.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 11:

• Music Technology: Defining terminology related to music technology, studying its development, and using hardware/software for sound analysis, synthesis, and editing.
• Arrangement Skills: Exploring sounds, concepts, and repertoires for arrangement in different settings.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 12:

• Music Education: Studying teaching methods, philosophies, and technologies in music education, demonstrating understanding in educational contexts, and arranging movements for learners.

Integrated Assessment:

• Recital: Presenting a recital, performing unknown pieces, and demonstrating various skills on chosen instrument/s.
• Research Project: Completing a research project using a selected methodology and presenting scholarly research.
• Teaching Sessions: Demonstrating music education approaches and methods in teaching sessions.
• Examination: Taking theoretical examinations for assessment of knowledge and understanding.