LAMDA Acting Exam Knowledge for Medal Grades 6, 7 and 8 

Oh that’s helpful, thank you 👍🏻

Oh I am so glad this was helpful - thank you for your lovely comment 💕

You are welcome. And the very best of luck to you 🤞🏻🍀

They really should only ask you those questions in the spec. If they ask you more or take them further then you should take it as a good sign and just do your best 👍🏻 I always encourage my students to be as prepared as possible. If you know your plays and characters and their objectives well, understand context, style/period and playwrights you should be all set! Best of luck!

I’d say as long as you can manage (without rambling!) then perhaps ask the examiner if they’d like any further explanation/information/examples?

And yes, they may, can and probably will (imo) ask questions after, just do your best here, I usually take this as a good sign that they are interested and can push you further in the conversation 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻best of luck! 🍀

Be able to describe and talk about the writers style and what was happening at that time. Great idea to have/mention other plays the writer has created though (especially if it backs up what you are saying about their style). Hope this helps and best of luck! 🍀

@@TheDramaCoach Thank you so much!!

You are most welcome

@@TheDramaCoach hi! i just wanted to let you know that i got full marks on my questions thank you sooo much for the help!!!

Oh that’s wonderful to hear! Thanks for letting me know. Really well done 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻

Ok, relax, don’t panic…check out my new video on diaphragmatic breathing for starters: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bhAUSHsU7ZU.html then think about how each of your characters breaths in his scenes (and why - how is he feeling / what emotion is he expressing?) …these vids may help: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x_EhecSufiE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jl1nQX0PKTw.html. Be ready to tell the examiner how we breathe…have you seen the knowledge matters LAMDA book?

Page 44/45 of LAMDA’s ‘knowledge Matters’ tells you a lot of what you need 👍🏻

@@TheDramaCoach Thank you so much

No problem, and best of luck! ☘️

I’m sure you’ll do great! If you’ve done your research and prepared your answers I’m sure you’ll be fine. Have you checked / rehearsed your answers with your teacher / tutor?

@@TheDramaCoach Update: I got a distinction 😆

Congratulations! 🎉 That’s wonderful news! All your hard work (and talent of course) obviously paid off. Well done 🤩

It depends on the examiner…just each be prepared to answer the question in full and I’m sure they will address you individually breaking up and extending the question 🤞🏻👍🏻

@@TheDramaCoachthankyou!

@unluckilyluckily8517 you are most welcome

I am glad this was helpful. Be prepared to speak with detail (but don’t waffle! examiners want concise answers but may well prompt / ask for more). And do t panic if they do or don’t ask further questions…sometimes they are honestly interested. I really hope it goes well for you. Good luck!

*don’t

I often think the breathing question can be hard for grade 6 students…make sure you can explain how you use your breath. And how / when / why you change it to create your character/objective.

Check out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bhAUSHsU7ZU.htmlsi=T-nbEGpz0VsiuLbu

And Drama Skills - The Importance of Breath ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jl1nQX0PKTw.html

So glad this is helpful. Your staging will depend on your piece - don’t just ‘use the stage’ for the sake of it, only if it fits your character’s intentions. And yes talk about the breath in renationalise to how you use it to show the character’s emotions. Good luck!

@@TheDramaCoach thank you so much

You are very welcome

Ok, first of all well done for completing grade 7. - not an easy task and it sounds like you were well prepared and worked hard for it. Second, don’t stress, what will be will be (the whole ‘everything happens for a reason’ springs ti mind here). There’s no problem if the examiner has to prompt you a bit to get the info out. Hopefully the points you got across was enough. I have everything crossed for you and would love to know the results when they arrive. Mean while if you are still worried have a chat with your LAMDA teacher/tutor. Best of luck! PS will you be taking your grade 8…?! (In some ways I think it’s a little easier than 7 - and of course you get to study a practitioner too which is exciting)

@@TheDramaCoach I get my results soon and do want to do grade 8 I’m just really nervous because I did well on my monologues I just don’t think I did detailed anayalsis enough for the theory as I did structure my answers that well when I was saying it

Don’t worry about the structure, as long as the info was there. Everything crossed for you 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

@@TheDramaCoach thank you so much! Do you know for grade 8 if there are any concessions you can apply for for the exams? I have adhd and dyslexia and part of the problem is I struggle to articulate what I’m saying in an understandable manner. I get extra time and rest breaks in exams so was wondering weather there is something similar for lamda??

Yes LAMDA provide ‘reasonable adjustments’ see this link: www.lamda.ac.uk/lamda-exams/teachers/book-an-exam/reasonable-adjustments

Yes, if you’ve chosen Stanislavski for your practitioner you (and your teacher) are quite right - you’ll need to know all of these things. Good luck

@@TheDramaCoach thank you, the thing is I applied after I finished school so I didn’t do it with my teacher. I’ve clarified and hopefully the examiner is aware now.

Well done, it sounds like you are doing all the research (and working hard on your own without a teacher). All the best 👍🏻

@@TheDramaCoach thank you. I did it on the 30th of July. My acting was good but my second one was something else like a movie. My theory was confusing because I mentioned everything magic if… given circumstances… emotional memory everything but I felt like at time I rambled and waffled. Don’t know how she took it to be honest

I have everything crossed for you and would love to hear the result when it arrives. I’m sure ‘rambling’ is preferable to ‘freezing’ so we’ll done for having plenty to say 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻