Edexcel Maths higher boundaries A*-A

My predictions for grade boundaries (I've tried to look at the jumps between 2010-2015)

A*- highest the boundaries could go: 165-168/200
A*-lowest grade boundaries could go: 160-162/200

It is unlikely they will keep it around 155 like last year my personal thought because the test was doable

A-highest the boundaries could go: 133-136/200
A- lowest the boundaries could go : 128-132/200

As a rule for higher Edexcel I always say the same to students.

A* is 85%
A is 70%
B is 50%
C is 35%

The grade boundaries fluctuate depending on normal distribution curve. So if students find it easy it goes up and vice versa.

I have seen the paper and I think it will be 82% for an A* and 67% for an A.

Prof84

Wait only around 160 for an A*?? Omg I thought I would need at least 180 so I've been stressing about it wow this makes me feel 95% better

Isn't 85% the highest it has been? Most of the time it is around 80%-82%

If you think about it, dropping 20 marks is quite a lot, so really an A* is doable if you put the work in!

The grade boundaries need to decrease because this was the hardest exam in 5 years we need to make a petition complain about those shitty A* questions or the ones at the end also the one at the start where it said ESTIMATE????? WHAT DO YOU MEAN MAKE IT CLEARER YOU MEAN THE ANSWER ORRR THE WORKINGS? So ye there are 2 answers for that I just put something like 60

Yeah I'm surprised you need like 85% to get an A* cause that's a lot of marks lost

An A* for this exam would most likely be around 161-163, depending on the calculator paper

Some found the exam really difficult, but I thought it was fine! Maybe I was over prepared

Yes the highest grade boundary was 2010 but exam was piss easy it was 176 for an A* the highest reasonable boundary was June 2013 which was 165 and Nov 2013 which was 169 boundaries for A* is always in the 160s

A lot of people are saying they found it quite hard. I can see twitter gradually being trended for how 'hard' this paper was. I don't think that was very hard at all. Maybe we were over prepared

what was the paper out of

It actually wasn't hard-

1) people complaining about first question but the formula was literally given to u and was on the previous page?
2)there was a questionnaire which is easy as replaces the stem and leaf
3)the last question u would have got marks for even writing the formality and substituting numbers in

yeah I think we were over prepared I hardly revised tho I just do past papers in class but my maths teacher is really good. I feel like a lot of people are exaggerating idk but it was slightly challenging than 2015 because a I actually found that test really good.

In the November mocks, I did the 2015 paper and I found it horrible back then, mainly because I was severely ill, and I ended up vomiting when I was recommended to go outside of the exam room with an invigilator for 'fresh air'. I ended up with a C. However, since then and before, I have been getting A*s. I haven't done 2015 since then, so I don't really know. But when I flicked through it yesterday, it looked quite good, so it was probably due to my illness. But within the past few days, I ABSOLUTELY AVOIDED getting ill, as I knew it would come to a disaster! Thank God I didn't!

Yes exactly I was ill like two weeks ago practically dying and I only had a few tests so wasn't that bad but I couldn't even revise cause I was so tired but I'm lucky I wrote all my notes out in like January so all I had to do was read them being Ill sucks

Haha! I was very ill a week before my first exam, so I'm counting my self very lucky!

I feel that although I started revising in January, it was too late to get the best grades. But in A Levels I'm going to try and work a lot harder than this year