An 8 y.o. girl has just passed grade one with 115 (a very solid pass).
I was extremely worried about this becuase the exam people gave me a date and the father said he couldn't do it as both he and his wife were working that day.
I phoned through to the exam people and they offered me a different (but similar) date. Once again both parents were tied up. I asked them if they could get an Uncle or Aunt to do the honours, but no luck.
When I phoned the exam people up again they went slightly crazy as one of their rules is that you can only change the date once!
They then offered me a really early date which I just took without further argument.
The parents still couldn't easily manage to take their daughter on this 3rd agreed date. After a lot of wangling and wrangling they finally agreed to take her to the exam.
This was really 2-3 weeks before she was even ready to take the exam and I was biting my fingernails over it as I was sure she was going to struggle.
Fortunately, she had a particularly good day and we can now progess on to grade 2.
The exam people are noted for not being particularly flexible, but I will have to have words with the parents as they were making things very difficult for me.
