Grade boundaries
Support available for awarding grades
Being able to provide grades to students is often regarded as an important way to monitor performance and recognise achievement.
While the actual grade boundaries set by the awarding committee are, by necessity, subject to change, the assessment criteria will always remain the same. Teachers can rely on this, along with their experience of previous years' students and their professional judgement to mark students' work accordingly.
See what other tools and support is available for awarding grades for the new GCSE English specifications
Estimating grades for each subject
Here we list the marks required to achieve grades in all AQA exams, for each exam session.
Further details about what grade boundaries are, and how they are decided, are in How we set standards.
Information about UMS (uniform mark scale) grade boundaries is also available.
These files contain information about the grade boundary marks for each subject, component, module and unit where appropriate.
