Don't worry allears. I had a small chicken pie for breakfast.
My examiner was Andrew Hansford. He can be found here:
http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Hansford_An...1155912848.aspxI also found that he was a CT ABRSM course leader / mentor for 2005-2006 in Oxford.
My accompanist was rather 'scared' when he saw the qualifications of Mr Hansford. He had LRSM, ARCO... the entire lot. At least 8 qualifications. And he specialises in piano accompaniment, which put more pressure on my accompanist.
But when I went in, Mr Hansford was all chummy and very pleasant. After I told him my pieces, he said, "Lovely programme!"
and things like,"ah, wonderful, the romance. Sadly we'll skip the 16-bars introduction, probably leave that for a concert." and "now let's hear some bartok!"
The pieces weren't too good; probably because I was too nervous. My handel nearly went ricochet.
Luckily I calmed down a bit after the first movt. The rest of the pieces were okay, but my accompanist thought I kept speeding up, which is the cause of some of my mistakes.
The scales were quite good, except I messed up my 2nd one; B flat melodic minor separate bowing... I played a few notes, restarted, then played harmonic minor. Stopped after playing only the raised 7th and looked at him. He said, "oh yes, I asked for melodic minor, please."
He was smiling when I made that mistake.
I think he wanted a dig at me by asking for G melodic minor octaves after that! My double-stops were all right, except for some wrong notes at the top of the B flat 3rds.
Nice Mr Hansford also gave me all the easy arpeggios; F#, E, Eb, and the only 3 octave arpeggios was G# minor slurred.
He gave me 2 of the hardest chromatics though... F# and G. I managed them properly!
The sight-reading was relatively all right. At least I didn't have my nightmarish kind; one with 6 flats and semiquaver passages. Mine was 5 flats, and it the rhythm was quite manageable. It did go up to 5th or 6th position though.
Aural - URGH.
test A - singing was quite bad... it was easy, but I couldn't catch the melody. oh well. Just made up some stuff. The cadence was easy though; interrupted. But I don't know if I got the 1st 2 chords right... the last 2 were definitely 5vii and 6.
test B - quite easy! it was scale-like; moving up small intervals and such.
test C - 2 modulations. 1 in D major, 1 in D minor. I couldn't tell, and this is usually my best part.
test D - it was definitely jazz, if I remember correctly, it's one of Gershwin's!
heavily syncopated, chromatism... the lot.
ah well. now the painful wait for results. In Singapore, they take a month. Hopefully they decide to do express delivery this time.
This is my last graded exam I'll take for violin in a very long time, so I've decided a distinction would be appropriate to go out with a bang. 
