Maths GCSE UMS Converter

Hi guys,

I notice a lot of people have been asking about their overall UMS in Maths, so after half an hour of fiddling about on Excel, I proudly present the UMS CONVERTER. This thing should be fully functional, although there might me some bugs.

IF they're any problems, post on this thread or PM me All grade boundaries are from the June 2010 paper.

Thanks

CheeseLord

You should get a B overall well done, as 72-80 should be a b in unit 3

you should get a b overall well done, as 72-80 should be a b in unit 3

btw, this image should emphasise - all grade boundaries can be found on edexcel's website - cavzy - the image also show what you got, assuming you only scraped the grades you said

Hi guys,

I notice a lot of people have been asking about their overall UMS in Maths, so after half an hour of fiddling about on Excel, I proudly present the UMS CONVERTER. This thing should be fully functional, although there might me some bugs.

IF they're any problems, post on this thread or PM me All grade boundaries are from the June 2010 paper.

Thanks

CheeseLord

This is not accurate at all. You are assuming the SAME ums conversion for every paper and not taking into consideration the very point of why there is a standardised UMS grading system. For example in Unit 1, you say 29 raw gives 72 UMS, but in November 2009 it was 25 raw that gave 72 UMS. Nice try but its flawed, big time!

Hey, can you help me please? I got a high A in unit 1, an A* in Unit 2 (half of this was 100%), overall a 54 average out of 60 for unit 3. I got 48/60 in the first and 60/60 in the second. Do you think I will get an A* overall? It's because I'm not sure of the grade boundaries and find it hard to interpret the document. Thanks.

All the grade boundaries are on the second sheet...what is it exactly that you find difficult to interpret??

From what you'd written I'd guess you'd get and A* - 108/120 is approximately 177 UMS for unit 3. But you need to have at least 183 UMS for Unit 1&2 to get an A* overall.

HOWEVER, results day may have lower/higher grade boundaries, so you want to be a few marks clear of the boundary t be safe

Dr Pwepper: There's no point testing the old version - I made some (well, major) tweaks that will hopefully solve the problem, if anybody would kindly try testing that I'd be extremely grateful



Thanks for your feedback. I agree, these grade boundaries will not be accurate most of the time, so I've changed all those fields to red since you'll need to manually input the grade boundaries of your exam season.

It is extremely difficult (perhaps impossible in Excel) to CALCULATE the grade boundaries automatically, because the boundaries as you say are based on the difficulty of the exam, and therefore change according to a unworkable factor. SO therefore, I can only assume that you've taken June 2010.

As a result, I've got another sheet in the spreadsheet file, where all the grade boundaries since Jun 09 are listed, and are directly taken from Edexcel's website.