Learn it here.
Prove it there.
Both books, and every answer. One of them teaches you the theory; the other one makes sure you can actually do it.
£39 for the pair. Separately they are £48.
- The Knowledge Book — all of Grades 1–5 rebuilt into 22 knowledge points. 60 pages.
- The Exercise Book — over ninety question types, five sets of each, every answer worked out.
- Every update to either book is yours free, forever. You buy this once.
Both books, instant download · every answer bound in
Not sure yet? Read sixteen pages of the set free
Knowing and doing are two different skills
Almost everybody who fails this exam understood the material. They had read it, they had nodded along, and they could have explained most of it to you the week before.
What they could not do was produce it, quickly, on paper, from a question phrased in a way they had not met. That is a separate skill, and reading does not build it.
So there are two books, and they are built to be used together: learn a point in one, turn to the same point in the other and work it until it is boring. Same 22 points, same order, same numbering. Nothing to cross-reference, nothing to hunt for.
Buying one of them is not half the result. It is the wrong half of a loop.
The Knowledge Book
Every point in the same three steps: what the knowledge is, the shortest way to work it out, and one example worked all the way through. Plus the one-page map of the whole syllabus, the four-week day-by-day plan, and the two-page cheat sheet for the morning of the exam.
60 pages · in your inbox immediately
The Exercise Book
A drill for every one of those same 22 points — over ninety question types, five different sets of each, so you can work one and come back a fortnight later to a page you have never seen. Every answer is worked out in full and bound into the same book.
In your inbox immediately
Both books are built on this one map. Twenty-two knowledge points, six chapters — learn it on the left, drill it on the right, and cross it off.
What is not in the box — and why
The videos are not in it, because they are free anyway. Every one of the twenty-two knowledge points has its own video on YouTube, and it always will. The books are what you work from; the videos are me explaining it.
And one thing this does not replace: ABRSM’s own past papers. When you have the knowledge and the practice, and you want to sit a full paper under the clock, buy those from ABRSM. Nothing I could make would be a better rehearsal. This replaces the books, not the papers.
What it costs
The Knowledge Book, the Exercise Book, and every answer sheet. Separately that is £48 — this saves you £9, and every update to either book is yours free, forever.
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Read sixteen pages of the set free before you decide — both books, in one sample.
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The Fast Track
Twelve live sessions over four weeks, three a week, in a small group — and the whole package comes with it. Not open yet. Join the list and you will hear the dates first, at the founding price.
Be the first to know when it opens
The books are out. The four-week group is not — not yet. Twelve live sessions with me, three a week, and the whole package comes with it. Leave your email and you will hear the dates before anyone else — and get the founding price, which is only there for the first cohort.
While you wait, I will send you one free exercise sheet from the Exercise Book each week.
No spam, ever. One email a week at most, and you can leave whenever you like.