IB MUSIC (HL, SLS, SLG, SLC)
Grade 7 Excellent performance
Demonstrates in a highly consistent manner: excellent perceptual skills in response to music, excellent
and secure knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and a sound use of
musical language to reflect thorough critical understanding; excellent performance skills and/or
excellent compositional skills.
Grade 6 Very good performance
Demonstrates in a most consistent manner: very good perceptual skills in response to music, very good
and secure knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and sound use of
musical language to reflect mostly competent critical understanding; very good performance skills
and/or very good compositional skills.
Grade 5 Good performance
Demonstrates in a consistent manner: good perceptual skills in response to music, good knowledge
and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and mostly sound use of musical language to
reflect some competent critical understanding; good performance skills and/or good compositional skills.
Grade 4 Satisfactory performance
Demonstrates in a fairly consistent manner: satisfactory perceptual skills in response to music, some
appropriate knowledge and understanding of music in relation to time and place, and mostly
appropriate use of musical language to reflect some critical understanding; satisfactory performance
skills and/or satisfactory compositional skills.
Grade 3 Mediocre performance
Demonstrates: mediocre perceptual skills in response to music, some knowledge and understanding of
music in relation to time and place, and some appropriate use of musical language to reflect partial
critical understanding; mediocre performance skills and/or mediocre compositional skills.
Grade 2 Poor performance
Demonstrates: poor perceptual skills in response to music, little knowledge and understanding of
music in relation to time and place, and little adequate use of musical language to reflect limited, if
any, critical understanding; poor performance skills and/or poor compositional skills.
Grade 1 Very poor performance
Demonstrates: very poor perceptual skills in response to music, very little, if any, knowledge and
understanding of music in relation to time and place, and very little, if any, use of musical language to
reflect very limited, if any, critical understanding; very poor performance skills and/or very poor
compositional skills.