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English Lang and Lit GCSE grade boundaries

I've searched the AQA website for the raw marks needed to get an A in, Paper 1 and 2 of Lang and also the Literature paper, but I only found the combined raw marks of the coursework and exam. Does anyone know -roughly- how many marks in each paper will give you an A? I heard it was fixed for Language but I'm not sure... Thank you :smile:

Reply 1

Homeboy Hotel

Paper 1 (out of 54)
A* A B C D E
54 48 43 38 33 27
Paper 2 (out of 54)
54 48 43 38 33 29
Literature A: (out of 66)
66 56 50 44 39 34

(Raw marks not UMS converted...)

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 2

InadequateJusticex

Original post by Homeboy Hotel

Paper 1 (out of 54)
A* A B C D E
54 48 43 38 33 27
Paper 2 (out of 54)
54 48 43 38 33 29
Literature A: (out of 66)
66 56 50 44 39 34

(Raw marks not UMS converted...)

There's no way that's possible. You're saying that you need to get full marks to get an A*? That's a big give away to how false that is...

Reply 3

Don Serious

http://web.aqa.org.uk/UMS/index.php?id=04

Reply 4

Homeboy Hotel

I forgot to edit the first lot of numbers out which, surprise surprise represents the maximum marks number because I copied it straight from the PDF file of June 2010.

Ignore what I'm saying and check the PDF for yourself at page 32 and 33
http://store.aqa.org.uk/over/stat_pdf/AQA-GCSE-GDE-BOUND-JUNE10.PDF

I think you've got me mistaken if you think I get frills from lying about grade boundaries.

Reply 5

InadequateJusticex

Original post by Don Serious

http://web.aqa.org.uk/UMS/index.php?id=04

English isn't there.

Original post by Homeboy Hotel

Olol I'm so dumb, I've seen that PDF a million times but I didn't bother scrolling down till the very bottom. I got to where it says 162 for both papers and I got utterly bewildered. Thank you :tongue:

Reply 6

kidoo

It's more like:

Paper 1 (out of 54)
A* A B C D E
48 43 39 36 27 24

Paper 2 (out of 54)
50 45 39 36 27 24

Literature A: (out of 66)
59 54 48 41 35 27

E: don't take these accurately though it does shift slightly yearly as you can see on the PDF .