A-levels: Grade boundaries leaked hours before results revealed

Students just need an overall score of 55% to get an A grade in this year's maths A-Level exam, leaked documents have shown.

The grade boundary of that and other popular subjects were reportedly published on a forum called The Student Room 24 hours before the official results are revealed. They showed the percentage needed to get an A this summer is in maths has fallen by 6% from 61% last year).The same grade only requires 56% in biology, 59% in physics, 67% in chemistry and 69% in English Literature, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Pearson, the parent company of the Edexcel exam board which drew up the maths paper, said grade boundaries are shared with schools as standard practice ahead of results day, but they are asked"not to share this widely".This year for the first time a new curriculum for A-level maths is being examined by the vast majority of students.

Students set up a petition, signed by over 18,000 people, after they sat the exam, complaining it was"unlike any specimen, past or textbook questions" and asking for it to be"marked fairly".

For A level Maths 55% is a D grade or at least it used to be some years ago. I wonder if it’s because FE colleges don’t hire enough maths lecturers. I am unemployed. Why change the boundaries ever year like that and not make a better exam paper?!

Reading all of the comments on this thread just goes to show that there are 3 types of people in this world. People that can do maths and people that can’t. maths alevelresultsday

The only way to know if they have been dumbed down is to compare an old paper, where 85% was required for an A, with today’s papers. This is an example of a 1970 A level paper

when i did my A levels it was 80%. if they have made the exam so hard that they have to lower it to 55% i would like to make the argument that the exam board themselves have produced a very shit exam.

This headline is so irresponsible and misleading.

My cousin saId it was easy. This is a joke.

Like many people on this thread I don’t know enough about this to comment 😉

That used to be a grade C. I thought these kids were supposed to be getting more intelligent but it turns out they only need to work half as hard as the older generations and have almost unlimited retakes.

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