National 5 · Higher · Advanced Higher

Your music exam, sorted.

Listening, music literacy, composing and performing — everything for your course in one place, built around the Qualifications Scotland course specifications.

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Choose your level

Every page changes to match the course you're sitting.

The four parts of your course

Quick practice

All games

Listening

Learn the concepts, hear them, then test yourself on the kinds of questions in the real paper.

← Listening

Concepts

Every concept from the course specifications, sorted by level and heading. Tap a concept for more information, or the play button to hear it.

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Heading

← Listening

Heading Sort

The exam groups concepts under five headings. Can you sort them?

← Listening

Opposites & Partners

Turn over two cards at a time and find the concepts that go together.

← Listening

Past paper review

Choose a paper and go through it question by question: what each question asks, the key words to spot, and how to approach it.

← Listening

60-second challenge

Ten different concepts. Sixty seconds. Get through them all before the clock runs out.

Music literacy

Reading and writing music. Every game only asks what's on your level's literacy list — plus everything from the levels below.

Composing

Get ideas down, hear them back, and take them into your own software as MIDI.

← Composing

Example compositions

Listen to example assignments and read their scores and reviews.

Performing

Resources

Worksheets, revision sheets and useful links to download or print.