Diploma or diplomas?

I apologise for my last post, I accidentally deleted that post and when I tried to copy and paste from an archived page, the background turned red.

Now on to the topic at hand, shall we?

Back in the 80's, while I was still a student, there were only two exams locally, the LTCL and the LRSM. The LRSM was issued by the ABRSM and the LTCL bt the Trinity College in London. These were notoriously almost impossible to pass ( failure rate for LRSM was more than 90% as was rumoured, LTCL was somewhat more lenient) that many failed repeatedly. The passing prerequisite was that you have to play as well as a undergraduate degree holder from a conservatory. Even my former classmate(in RJC) Yew Shan, who eventually played 3rd chair, first violins SSO, had to take it twice(he worked very hard for the second round). He also won the grand prize in the national competition in'89, playing Tzigane by Ravel.

The exam boards soon realised that to entice more people to sign up for their exams and to continue learning, they had to come up with something less daunting-thus they introduced dipABRSM and ATCL, both a far cry in standard from LRSM and LTCL, as the only requirement was the candidate plays at the level of a first year student at a conservatory. (A normal course at a conservatory takes 4 years to complete nominally)

Now anyone can say they have a diploma

My students only go for 2 exams-the lesser ones LTCL, and the better ones LRSM.

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