Music · Practice test

JSS 1–3 practice test

15 questions + 2 written tasks. Answers and your score show when you submit the whole test.

How it works: answer every question as you would in an exam, then submit to see the answers and your score. For written answers, compare yours with the model answer and mark it honestly: that is where the learning happens.

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1. Define music.
2. Define sound and name the two types of sound.
3. List five properties (elements) of sound.
4. Name and define the main groups of music.
5. Explain the difference between sources of sound and types of sound.
6. What is transcription in music?
7. List three guidelines for transcription.
8. What is a scale in music?
9. Define key signature.
10. Write the scale of F major and state its key signature.
11. Write the scale of G major using the tone–semitone pattern and identify its key signature.
12. Compare a talking drum and a keyboard in terms of sound source and how pitch is changed.
13. Listen to a highlife song and an Afrobeats song. Evaluate which uses more repetition in its rhythm and explain.
14. Compose a four-bar rhythm in 4/4 time using crotchets, quavers and minims, and clap it.
15. (new, AI literacy) A classmate uses an AI tool to generate a song and enters it into a school composition contest as their own work. Evaluate whether this is fair and suggest responsible use.

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Written tasks

Not part of the score above. Write your answer here or on paper, then you, a parent or a teacher can mark it with the marking guide.

1. Short: Describe the role of music in one Nigerian ceremony (e.g. naming, wedding, festival).
2. Extended: Transcribe a short folk song you know into staff or tonic sol-fa notation and explain your choices.