they’ll definitely be low, most exam boards have said they want to go back to 2019 levels, but in reality we still faced forms of disruption from COVID so grade boundaries will be lower - not quite peak COVID levels though. even CIE have admitted that they don’t think they’ll make the grade boundaries parallel w 2019 for this season.

but the case for CIE is slightly different; CIE runs the International A-Level (the system is basically like a levels in England before reforms in 2016, similar to the current system in Wales)

students doing A2 exams with CIE iALs should have sat the AS modules in some exam series before, mostly likely June 2022; they their raw scores are converted into UMS using grade boundaries for that exam series, and there final A-Level certification will be based on total UMS obtained from one or more exam series, not just June 2023

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Simba2012

Original post by Kitsilano1865

I did the same and would also like to know....

So my teacher said the following …

I have looked at the 2021 Paper 3 where g =10 applied. The mark scheme states 'Penalise g = 9.8 only once in the question'. Therefore if you used g = 9.8 in every part of the projectiles question, but applied g correctly, then you will only be penalised in part (a) of the question and you will not lose marks in the remaining parts of the question if g = 9.8 is applied correctly.

I've attached the mark scheme from 2021 to highlight how this will work. Notice the right-hand column, which also gives the answers if g = 9.8 was used instead.

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I hope this clarifies your concerns. Ultimately if you have done everything correct in the whole question, but used g = 9.8 instead, then you will lose some marks in part (a) but receive full marks in the remaining parts of the question