Discovering Music Theory

November 2020 welcomes the arrival of ABRSM's new Online Music Theory Exams. With a focus on creating a more reliable and accessible assessment, Online Music Theory exams give candidates the best opportunity to demonstrate their musical knowledge and understanding.

To support the format of these new online exams, we have updated some of the Grade 1 to 5 questions to bring them in line with a style of assessment commonly used across the education sector.

Although the way in which you take your exam has changed, and some of the questions have been updated, we are still testing the same musical knowledge and understanding, to the same standards.

Discovering Music Theory

A new series of graded workbooks and corresponding answer books that offer all-round preparation for our new online Music Theory exams at Grades 1 to 5.

These full-colour workbooks contain progressive exercises interspersed with timely explanations, tips and reminders, enabling learners to build up knowledge and understanding of music theory step by step.

Take a look at some sample pages from these new books:

Sample Papers

Music Theory Sample Papers and Music Theory Sample Model Answers are also available for the new style of exams at Grades 1 to 5.

Available from 8 October 2020.