Music Placement Examinations
In order to determine their course levels, all new students must sit diagnostic placement examinations starting the week prior to the beginning of classes in:
and, for Jazz students:
Placement examination results will be distributed during the Advising Session for new students on September 4.
For a precise schedule and sample exams, refer to the Placement Exams website.
First-year students enrolled in the Bachelor of Music program who have completed the Quebec Diploma of Collegial Studies (Diplôme d'études collégiales) in a Music concentration or equivalent, or students transferring from other universities or colleges, and who have completed a course in the history of Western music and/or a course in the history of Jazz will be reviewed for exemption from the first-year Western Musical Traditions requirement (MUHL 186) and/or the first-year Jazz History Survey requirement (MUJZ 187).
Students accepted into either the Licentiate Diploma or the Artist Diploma, who have completed the degree of Bachelor of Music at a Canadian or American university (or the equivalent elsewhere) within the preceding three (3) years, will not be required to sit the Music Placement Examinations and will be exempted from required Theory, Musicianship, and Music History, Literature, or Performance Practice courses. Should such students wish to avail themselves of the diagnostic service that the Music Placement Examinations provide, they may sit them; without, however, being bound by the recommendation generated from their results. Nevertheless, should great difficulties arise in a specific class because of lack of adequate preparation, the Chair of the Department of Music Research, upon the advice of the instructor, reserves the right to counsel the student to undertake studies at a lower level.