2025 Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE Music Technology Advanced Subsidiary COMPONENT 3: Listening and Analyzing
Combined Question Paper & Final Marking Scheme
Please check the examination details below before entering your candidate information
Candidate surname Other names
Centre Number Candidate Number
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Wednesday 14 May 2025
reference
8MT0/03
Morning (Time: 1 hour 15 minutes) Paper
Music Technology
Advanced Subsidiary
COMPONENT 3: Listening and Analysing
You must have: Total Marks
2025 Pearson audio files, headphones and computer with
media playing software
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
•• Answer
Answer all questions.
the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Access to music production software or the internet is not permitted.
Information
•• The
The total mark for this paper is 60.
marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check
Try to answer every question.
• your answers if you have time at the end.
Turn over
,P79870A
©2025 Pearson Education Ltd.
Y:1/1
, SECTION A
Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an
answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross .
1 The Weeknd: Save Your Tears (2020)
(a) Identify the most likely quantise value to have been used for the bass in
the introduction.
(1)
A 1/16
B 1/8
C 1/4
D 1/2
(b) Identify the three drum sounds in the first verse between 0:08–0:15.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
(3)
1 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
2 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
3 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
(c) The New York Times music critic, Jon Caramanica, stated, ‘ “Save Your Tears” exhibits
a shimmery mid-1980s luxuriance.’
Identify four features of this recording that reflect 1980s production.
(4)
1 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
2 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
3 ...............................................................................................................................
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
............................................................................................................................... .................
4 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
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Combined Question Paper & Final Marking Scheme
Please check the examination details below before entering your candidate information
Candidate surname Other names
Centre Number Candidate Number
Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE
Wednesday 14 May 2025
reference
8MT0/03
Morning (Time: 1 hour 15 minutes) Paper
Music Technology
Advanced Subsidiary
COMPONENT 3: Listening and Analysing
You must have: Total Marks
2025 Pearson audio files, headphones and computer with
media playing software
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
•• Answer
Answer all questions.
the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
• Access to music production software or the internet is not permitted.
Information
•• The
The total mark for this paper is 60.
marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check
Try to answer every question.
• your answers if you have time at the end.
Turn over
,P79870A
©2025 Pearson Education Ltd.
Y:1/1
, SECTION A
Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
Some questions must be answered with a cross in a box . If you change your mind about an
answer, put a line through the box and then mark your new answer with a cross .
1 The Weeknd: Save Your Tears (2020)
(a) Identify the most likely quantise value to have been used for the bass in
the introduction.
(1)
A 1/16
B 1/8
C 1/4
D 1/2
(b) Identify the three drum sounds in the first verse between 0:08–0:15.
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
(3)
1 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
2 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
3 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
(c) The New York Times music critic, Jon Caramanica, stated, ‘ “Save Your Tears” exhibits
a shimmery mid-1980s luxuriance.’
Identify four features of this recording that reflect 1980s production.
(4)
1 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
2 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
3 ...............................................................................................................................
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS AREA
............................................................................................................................... .................
4 ............................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................................................... .................
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