Term 2: Formative Assessment Feedback

In the week from the 30th of January to the 3rd of February, we had a formative assessment week in which our knowledge about the lectures we attended in Term 2 was tested.

I received decent scores for all my formatives and I'm pretty content with how it turned out. There were some questions that I didn't answer correctly in for example Studio Production, where I didn't identify the right frequencies sometimes and I think that this is valuable feedback since I can see my weaknesses and practise until they become strengths.

I've learned a lot in the time that I have spent at ACM but I strongly believe that I could have learned even more if some of the classes covered more advanced subject matter.

In my opinion, they should split the classes into more basic and advanced groups for the second year to push the advanced and help the people who need more basic knowledge.

I strongly believe that this would benefit everyone since some of the classes are hard to get through because the lecturers have the responsibility to match the pace of the slowest learner which hinders the faster learners from progressing and makes the lecture boring because they are unchallenged.

Other than that I have learned a lot from ACM, I think the way it is built around learning by doing is great. Another brilliant thing is that we are able to make use of the facilities and book tutorials.

Another reason why I have learned so much in the time being here is that the lectures at ACM only take up about 17 hours which compared to the 36 hours a week I had to attend at my old school is very little. Because of this, I was able to do a lot of studying outside of ACM to further help my musical and technical development.

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