有無人考琴一考考五級?

foolish.mom

If the child has satisfactory progress, is self-disciplined to practise, and is mature enough, it is a viable option.

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mrsbear
Piano exam before grade 5 is just to set a target and achievement level for the child and parents. My opinion is that if the child knows the target is to achieve grade 5 in a few years, and she practises hard enough, there is no need to take exam before grade 5.  Practising for exam would inevitably slow down the progress, especially when the teacher and the child want to achieve very high mark.

The situation is like when a child knows how to do addition, the teacher should move on to teach subtraction or multiplication.  However, if the child is facing an exam on addition soon, the teacher will not start teaching subtraction, but to drill on addition until they have confidence that the child will get 100 mark in the exam.

Just make sure the child will participate in some competitions. These are perfect opportunities for the teacher and the child to seriously learn and study a few piano pieces, and the child will get the experience on how to polish a piece until it is perfect.  Learning to play several exam pieces is a good approach, so that the parent knows what is the approximate level of the child.

From your posts, it seems the teacher is using the right approach for the child to take grade 5 exam.