Overall the representative choir is a huge opportunity that you should take if you can. All of the people are nice, it is fun, you learn lots of new things

Waiting for the auditions for the choir are nerve-wracking, even when you have done it twice before, but once you have started, they are not so bad. First, you need to sing the national anthem. It is better when you sing louder. Next, they ask you to sing a scale. They go high until you can’t sing any higher and then they go as low as you can. After that, they do some musicality tests like, they play a tune and you have to sing it back, and they play three notes and they ask you to sing the bottom, middle or top note. These aren't usually that high. 

About 1 month later, you get the results, either you were successful or you weren't. They usually accept around 100 - 125 in both the choirs. Depending on your age group, you are in the junior or senior choir. You go to about 6 practices on a Saturday from 1:00 - 3:00 at the various locations. You learn the harmonies for the masses choir songs. You also have to attend the three days in the holidays. These are all day but they are really fun. In the holiday coarse you learn the songs that you have to perform at the three days in the concert. You also got to practice the masses choir songs that you get with your school choir, with the orchestra. Overall these practices are very helpful, but if you can, they are compulsory to attend. 

At the Christchurch Schools Music Festival, this is what all of the practices are leading up to. There are three concerts than to have to attend. You sing the songs and harmonies that you have learned with all of the other school choirs and you sing the songs that you learned at the holiday program to the audience. The concerts you wear your school uniform to represent the school that you have come from.