<div> Certainly.   I wasn't aware that there was an exam prep list.</div> <div> </div> <div>Tom Israel Stein <custos3@comcast.net> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">At 09:31 AM 8/27/2006, Tom wrote: >List > >Thanks to all for the positive feedback and good wishes. Seemed >inappropriate to ask for the advice and all and then not divulge the results... > >Passed both regulation portions, grand and vertical, but failed the >repair section. Actually, I got perfect scores on every single >category in the repair section, but had some misfortune (=stupidity) >in the stringing section. Tom - congratulations on the parts you passed. >Made my hitch pin loop and it was perfect. Got my coil going on the >pin and it too looked perfect except...only three coils and I was >thinking, "I need four". So I tightened it a bit more, hoping to >add another coil to the pin, and BOINK. It broke. On a real piano >there's a pitch reference, so you know how much tension a string can >take, but on the little string board thingee, I had no idea how much >tension I had on there. Just stupidity. No, Tom, not stupidity - just exam anxiety. It happens... The lesson here might be (for everyone planning to take exams) not to second-guess your decisions on the exam, and trust yourself... The scoring tolerances on the exam are generous enough so that most of what is generally acceptable in the trade will get you the point. I know that this is sort of vague, but that's the best I can do. I can't give you the precise criteria, but I can tell you that either way you would have been OK. Anyway, I think your experience is worth cross posting to the Exam-Prep list. May I get your permission to do this? Israel Stein </BLOCKQUOTE>