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Subject Comment Recommendation
speaking, reading and
listening.
Music In the new syllabus SBAs should be SBA submission should
st
submitted by April 1 of the year of the be time tabled at an
exam Trinidad and Tobago enters between earlier date to facilitate
three and four hundred students in the marking of SBA
approximately eighty schools annually. and CVQ components
to meet CXC’s
Moderators will be required to visit these deadlines. It is
schools and moderate the practical important that this
component and the written project of five submission date be
students per school. The submission of consistent throughout
final marks by moderators is usually early the Caribbean to ensure
May. Music Practical exam must also be equity.
completed within a two week period in
early May.

This will be a difficult task since teachers
employed in this exercise also have
students to prepare for the exam. With the
introduction of the CVQ component in the
SBA it is expected that moderators will be
required to assess this component of the
exam as well.

SBA Moderation (Pg. 60) Appendix III In light of the new
Clarification is required on the moderation components of this
exercise on page 60 of Appendix III. It is syllabus it is necessary
stated in bold that …the moderators will for workshops to be
moderate solo performance and conducted by CXC
ensemble of a sample of five students. In before the start of the
the second paragraph also in bold it is syllabus
stated that, “teachers are not required to implementation in
submit samples of students work unless September 2018, to
requested by the CXC council”. ensure that teachers are
aware of the new
Does this mean that the written component requirements of the
of the SBA will no longer be moderated? examination and can
prepare for
implementation in the
new academic year.

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