Disclaimer: This post is going to make me sound like the world's most precious / blinkered / pushy ballet mummy. I know. This is why I'm posting it on an anonymous internet forum and not asking anyone in RL. But I'd really appreciate some insight.
DD (7 and a half) has just taken her RAD Primary ballet exam.
A week prior to the exam, I watched her dance in one lesson and I was really pleasantly surprised, she was (to my untrained eye) significantly more graceful / polished than the other little girls in her class. Several of the other parents commented on how good she was, and when the teacher was chatting after the lesson, she said (to someone else) 'oh yes, [my DD's name] is absolutely lovely'.
Anyway, she did the exam, and we just got the results. She got a distinction (77 marks), which I am really extremely pleased with, and obviously I've told her how enormously proud of her I am.
However, nearly all the others got distinctions too (several on 75 marks), and a couple who didn't (who you would have looked and and thought they were really nowhere near as good as the others) got 73.
And then one child, who in the lesson I mentioned earlier, was OK but nothing obviously special, got 85.
So if I'm honest, I'm now feeling slightly disappointed. Before the exam, I felt as though she was streets ahead of the others, and although I know this sounds super-precious, this was backed up by other people and the teacher. But now it seems that there was only one or two marks in it, and in fact another girl who hadn't been particularly noticeable, was way way better than my DD.
So if you've got a ballet background, can you put this into some perspective for me?
(Will sit back now and await the flaming that I probably richly deserve )
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