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am i reading this right, ums advice!!

i just looked at aqa biology specification A june 2006 and is it correct that you only needed to get 48/75 to get an A in bya5 (page 47). Thats only 64%! It's around that for some of the other papers too. i thought to get an a you needed 80% giive or take a few %. do grade boundaries really change that much? please reply for rep and thanks and for ur gd deed of the day! :smile:
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anon53
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It depends on the difficulty of the paper and candidates' responses to it. Grade Boundaries may change by 1-3% each year to reflect this difficulty. They are set post-marking in order to ensure that standards are maintained. Each raw mark (i.e. the total mark on the paper) is converted to a UMS Mark usually out of 90,100 or 105, but there may be others. This is to ensure that the person who achieved an A last year has the same 'value' of qualification as the person who got it this year. Individual units may be worth different UMS marks, but for AS, the three units always add up to 300. For A2, this is doubled to 600. This applies to all A-levels, except Double Awards, where AS is out of 600; A2 out of 1200.

At AS
A = 240 / 300 = 80%
B - 210/ 300 70%
C - 190 / 300 60%
D - 150 - 50%
E - 120 - 40%

For A2, this is doubled.
An A -480
B - 420

etc

Hope this helps

Good Luck
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PYA6 for Psychology - 64/100 is 100% UMS which is 120/120!
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Grade boundaries for AQA Biology are ridiculous tbh.

In Jan - Module 5 I did rubbish (got a U - but in fairness I hadn't been to any lessons and only did 4 hours revision). But it was 48/75 for an A. I actually got 30/75 which I thought would be an E but this got scaled down to 27UMS and was a U. But there were literally 4/5 marks between each grade and you had to get 34/75 for an E so only 15 marks difference between an A and a U.

Aim for over 50/75 and you'll do fine.

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