GCSE results day 2018: What are GCSE grade boundaries? Edexel, OCR, Eduqas, WJEC and more
GCSE EXAM results will be in the hands of many students right now and grades will reveal the next step for the country’s student population. What are the grade boundaries for each exam board?
GCSE results day: Students find out their grades
College and sixth-form will now be on the minds of many students who have just collected their results from school, but many will be curious about how good their grades actually were.
Following a controversial government decision to change the grade system from letters to numbers, confusion surrounding grades is worse than ever.
A whole host of subjects have been switched from the traditional letter system this year, and the changes will have people religiously peering over the boundaries.
Released from 8am today, the grade boundaries for each exam board are now available online.
What are the new GCSE grades?
People are likely to be confused about the newest grade boundaries, which see the new numbers take over from grades A* to U.
The new numbers, a decision soured by education secretary Michael Gove, see multiple numbers represent certain letters.
Not all subject are as of yet being graded in this manner, but come 2020 the Department for Education is expecting this to be common practice.
Letter to number grades are as follows:
- 9, 8 or 7 are highest, comparable to an A* or A grade, 9 is an A**
- 6, 5 or 4 is comparable to a B or C grade
- 3, 2 or 1 is comparable to a D, E or F grade
- U marks are simply judged as ungraded
What are the GCSE grade boundaries?
This year’s grade boundaries come from each examination body, including AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC CCEA and Eduqas.
Each set of grade boundaries has now been released by all exam boards, and were online as of 8am today.
OCR’s were the first available, as they went online from 6am.