Standard Rose Etude that gives you a chance to demonstrate articulation, technique, and range. Not that much that needs to be said. Keep this one simple.
Choice of tempo: choose a tempo that not only works for the beginning, but also works for you later in the etude, when the fingerings get more challenging. Faster is not necessarily better, technical stability and resonant sound are important too.
Staccato vs. carets vs. accents: how you handle these differences won't be the most important feature of your audition. For what it is worth, here are my personal definitions of how the caret and accent styles differ from staccato, but you have another interpretation:
caret - harder articulation and more force in the air at the beginning of the note than regular staccato. In modern usage, can mean extra short and dry (like in Stravinsky) but I don't think that is what is meant here.
accent - longer than staccato, air starts stronger than staccato but then air pressure gradually relaxes, an air pressure diminuendo
For those of you who know how to do stopped tonguing, I recommend playing this one that way. My preference might stem from my FSU training with Frank Kowalsky, but nevertheless, I prefer clarity in this etude, some space at the end of slurs is good as long as the last note of the slur is not clipped.
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