Observation

Candidates’ performance in this question was below average. The question required candidates to listen to a chord progression consisting of 8 chords in the key of F major and then identify the chord used in the progression. Despite the question was popular among the candidates, some of the candidates that attempted could not recognise first and second inversion of chords from the root position, thereby losing greater parts of the mark allotted to the question. Candidates were expected to respond thus:  

(i) Ib (Tonic first inversion)                            (v) )  I (Tonic root position)
(ii) Ib (Tonic first inversion)                           (vi) Ic (Tonic second inversion)
(iii) IVb (Subdominant first inversion)           (vii) V (Dominant root position)
(iv) II (Supertonic root position)                     (viii)  I (Tonic root position)