AQA A-level Economics new 7136 - 06, 13 & 19 Jun 2017 [Exam Discussion]

What we saying for a B then? 55/80 marks on each paper sound about right?

Lower than that as I'd say for paper 3 we will be looking at around 60/80 for an A

Yeah paper 3 was odd. Slightly different exam technique and some fairly challenging multiple choice questions I thought.

I think I got 20/30 on the multiple choice but my micro paper was solid and 5/6 of the macro questions for me were really good so I hope I scraped an A

Last time a new spec was introduced grade boundaries were 68% for an A. Due to new ways of marking I feel perhaps 57/58 for an A 52/53 for a B across all the papers

I hope this is correct. I feel like for me, micro could be anywhere between 66 and 70, macro will be around 61/60 and paper 3 around 59/60. I really need low boundaries to get my A. 👌🏻


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Well your worst case scenario from what you've said is a total of 186/240 which will almost definitely be an A in my opinion. I think you'll be very unfortunate to not get an A with a mark like that.

what are these estimates based on

Would you say they are too low?

I predict similar.

Based on the papers themselves with paper 3 by far being the hardest.

Based on the newspapers saying that grade boundaries for new spec exams will be lowered.

Based on the fact that we are the first year and the last time in economics a new spec was introduced it was 54 for an A out of 80 something like that