Piano exam coming up

Piano lessons have been ongoing from the beginning. The exam will be in mid-to-late November (though I haven't received notice of the exact date or venue yet) which means only a few weeks are left to prepare. The timetable my teacher and I are going by is rather tight, and I'm currently not sure whether I'll be able to perform well for the exam. I took the same exam, with the same pieces, some one and a half years previous, in May 2009, and failed by a few marks to pass. I worry that I may once again fail to pass, as I don't feel I've put enough time and effort into preparing and will be left still hanging by my climbing rope by the time November rolls around, rather than safely at the top of the mountain. Either way, the coming weeks will no doubt have to be full of piano practice among other things if I want to achieve a good result in the coming exams.

Oh yes, the pieces I'm playing are four in number. J.S.Bach's Toccata and Fugue in E minor, Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 5 in C Minor Opus 10 No. 1, Debussy's Sarabande No. 2 in C# Minor from his _Pour le Piano_, and Chopin's Waltz in E flat Major Opus 18. These total a 30-something minute-long recital.

I should actually elaborate more on my exam, shouldn't I? The exam I'm taking is the ATCL Performance exam by Trinity Guildhall. It's ostensibly, according to the website, equal to one year of university study. "ATCL" stands for something like Associateship of Trinity College London. Does that mean that, if I make this exam, I'll become part of some sort of Associateship? Probably not, but, heh, it's a pretty cool name. Beyond ATCL is LTCL (Licentiateship) and then FTCL (Fellowship). The "Performance" part simply means that the diploma is for piano _performance_ as opposed to something like teaching (which is yet another diploma). I'm also taking the Recital format, which means that I just go in, hand over my programme notes (which is basically a short essay analysing the pieces to show I understand them) play, and go out.

So. (Gets back to practicing)