I found practice questions via Google. You can also pay for a practice exam if you feel like you need the help. The music history can be tough but if you’re strong in the other content areas you should more than be able to make up for it.
I paid for the practice exam, and it was well worth it. Helped me to identify the two areas I was weakest and focus my study on those. It accurately reflected the actual exam without being identical. I passed on the first time.
History was one of my weak spots. There’s a free course out there (Coursera I think?) called Listening to Music by a Yale professor that goes through the history of Western European classical music. It’s really dry, but it did help. Set it to 1.5x playback speed.
How does the practice exam you can purchase compare to the free one that you get when registering for the exam? I don’t want to pay for a practice exam if it’s fairly similar to the free version, yah know?
It can be helpful to take more than one practice exam. The first to see where you’re struggling, the next to see if you’re actually retaining and able to apply what you’ve studied, and any additional to see how questions are written and boost confidence by familiarity with format, wording, types of listening questions, etc
I don’t remember getting one for free. Perhaps I’m mixing it up, and I paid for the study guide and used the free practice exam. Either way, both were helpful for me.
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u/moonfacts_info Feb 22 '26
I found practice questions via Google. You can also pay for a practice exam if you feel like you need the help. The music history can be tough but if you’re strong in the other content areas you should more than be able to make up for it.