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Theory Courses, Practice & Exams can all be purchased on the Make an Entry page.

On the entry page there is the option to switch between our Instrumental Grades and Music Theory at the top of the page. From here you can then select your Music Theory Course, Practice or Exam and select whether it will be in British or American terminology.

During the entry process you will be asked:  “Who needs access to this course/exam?”

Theory courses/exams are accessed via your MTB exam portal. If you or someone else (such as a family member) will be accessing the exam/course with your MTB login, then please select ‘Myself’.

If this course/exam is going to be accessed by someone else not using your login (such as a student) then please select ‘Someone Else’ and provide their email. They will receive an email with instructions on how to access their course/exam.

If this person already has an account with MTB please ensure to use the email address already registered to their account. If they don’t have an account, this email will be used to create their new MTB account and they will be emailed to complete their sign up.

Purchased Theory Courses, Practice & Exams can all be accessed via your exam portal, the button for which is found at the top of the website.

Once on the Portal on your ‘My Exams/Courses’ page you will you will see a list of your purchased Theory products and Instrumental Exams.  You can filter or search the reference for the product in question and on the right of the purchased Theory product you will see a Green ‘Start’ button, or in the case of an exam you will receive an email within 3 working days of entry with your exam link and login details. These will launch your Theory product in the Artusi/MTB platform and you will be able to access your Theory Course, Practice or Exam.

With our Interactive Theory, registered MTB Centres receive free access on their exam portal to any theory course or practice purchased by one of their students.

Just ask your students to put in your centre number during the entry process in the same way as our instrumental grade entries.  (Your centre number can be found on your ‘my account’ page). After the purchase a copy of the Theory course/practice purchased will appear on your centre exam portal as well as your student’s portal.

Centres also have the option to make the entry/purchase the Theory Course/Practice for their student from their account using the someone else feature to assign the Theory to their student.  In this case they will also receive access to the Theory purchased on their account.

Links to take the exam are sent to the email of the person who purchased the exam.

MTB’s Theory Courses & Practice grant access to our interactive software for a single year after purchase.

Theory Exams can only be taken once per purchase and can be taken up to one year from purchase.

Yes, MTB Interactive Theory can be used for classroom/group teaching and there are different suggested routes depending on the devices available and organisation preferences. Please download our helpful Teacher & School Theory Guide here.

Option 1: All students have access to an individual electronic device and learner email logins:

• In this scenario the students can all work through either the same or different grade courses and practice exams from their learner portal. The teacher can view marks and progress from their own portal. The teacher can go through elements of the course and practice questions while students try various randomised questions in that area.
• When taking a graded exam, the students could all take the exam together in class on their own devices with the teacher present as a silent observer as long as students are not able to see each other’s screens and do not communicate during the assessment. Alternatively, students can take the exam at home individually.

Option 2: The students do not have access to personal devices and email logins in the lesson but do at home:

• In this scenario the teacher can present the course from their own computer, ideally using a large screen at the front of the class. Teachers have the ability to print off course and practice exam worksheets (right click on the course/practice page and select print) and give them to students to complete during the lesson. The students can also work on any Theory Course chapters or Practice Exams for homework and their work/results can be viewed at any time by the teacher.
• It is an option for the school to purchase a single course for the teacher to use as instruction material during the lesson and to have the students purchase only the Theory Practice questions and any graded exams. This does limit their ability to learn or practise individual sections of the course for homework using their devices, but they can complete practice exam questions at home.
• The graded exam will need to be conducted by the student at home on their own device.

Schools/Music Schools: Where you have multiple teaching staff working as part of one school who do not have access to log into the school’s MTB centre account, it is suggested that theory teachers sign up with MTB Exams as ‘individual teachers’ to receive their own centre number and when purchasing Theory Courses or Practice, use these centre numbers to allow teachers to access and view their student’s progress and answers.

MTB’s Theory Courses, Practice & exams contain unlimited randomised questions.  These questions are created using set parameters but are randomly generated each time.

You can create a new set of randomised questions by selecting the start new assignment button on a Course or Practice grade, while you can click on any existing assignment to continue working on the existing set of generated questions.  These existing assignments will not generate new questions when left and accessed again.

MTB Centres receive access to their students’ Theory Courses/Practice that they are linked to during the entry process, these allow the teacher to see the structure of the Course/Practice and see their student’s saved answers and progress.  The student’s progress can be seen by selecting the specific student’s course from the exam portal and pressing start. Please note that the teacher will only see saved and completed assignments/answers and will not see real time answers being submitted. The student will also see any saved answers/progress completed by the teacher in the same way on the student’s course/practice.

While completing MTB Theory Courses or Practice you will see a progress bar at the bottom of the page for answered questions.  You will also be able to see the % of correct/incorrect questions next to the assignment on the landing page of the Theory Course/Practice that you go to from the MTB homepage.

Teachers/centres whose centre number was linked during entry can also see their students’ Theory Course/Practice progress and results.

Yes, ABRSM accepts MTB Grade 5 Theory as an alternative prerequisite so any candidates who have passed MTB Grade 5 Theory will be able to enter for an ABRSM higher grade Practical or Performance Grade exams.