[GrantG]

I took AQA GCSE French this year and the listening was HARD. Even A grade students found it difficult. Last year the overall to get a C was 180. Will it go down even more if that exam was hard or will it stay the same?

[Paramore<3]

If they see that the general spread of marks are lower than previous years, then yes, general practice is to lower the boundaries accordingly.

[usycool1]

If it's harder than previous years then yes, it is likely that grade boundaries will go down. But there's no point in worrying about the grade boundaries, just enjoy the summer holidays

[Data]

(Original post by GrantG)
I took AQA GCSE French this year and the listening was HARD. Even A grade students found it difficult. Last year the overall to get a C was 180. Will it go down even more if that exam was hard or will it stay the same?

It will still be 180UMS for a C, but if an individual exam was hard then the conversion from the raw marks to the UMS marks will be more generous.

[123maz]

it depends really, if people all over the country found it hard then the overall grade boundaries go down, and i heard about that, my friends took their 2012 french exam and they found it hard too

[pink pineapple]

if the exam was seen as universally hard, then yes the grade boundaries tend to be lower