Yamaha Grade Examination System
Yamaha Grade Examination System
Established in 1967 by Yamaha Music Foundation as a companion test to the Yamaha Music Education System, the Yamaha Grade Examinations System is one of the few examinations that evaluate students' improvisational skills in addition to the standard repertoire performance, sight reading and aural tests.
The Grade Examination System broadly targets two groups: students and teachers. Student grades (Grades 13-6) are used as an objective assessment of the progress being made in learning music, while the teacher grades (Grade 5-3) certify the performance ability as well as overall musical knowledge needed to provide music instruction. More than 10 million people have taken these proficiency examinations over the past 40 years, in more than 40 countries / regions.
The curriculum of each course is made up based on the contents of the grade examination system. In other words, the contents of the grade examination are synchronized with those of the daily lessons that will be accumulated to enhance students' overall development.
The below chart shows the Yamaha Piano Grade for students and its equivalency with other international grades, based on the YPC textbooks and levels:
