GCSE Grade Boundaries 2018 Released - GCSE results thread (OCR, AQA and EDEXCEL)

One paper coming out tomorrow is reporting pass marks are gonna be the same

Link?? Does this mean for maths and English in comparison to 2017, or is this for all the newly reformed subjects?

Oh I remember that question. It was horrible I ran out of time so I only had enough time to draw the circuit, not do the written part. Do you think I'll get any marks just for the circuit drawing?

I remember in chem for an ionic bonding 4 marker our teacher said you could draw a dot cross for full marks instead of explaining so i think you’ll get at least 2! (If it’s correct) I had noooo idea on whether to pick a LDR, thermistor, resistor etc so I’ve already missed them marks

For maths this is the second year of a new syllabus so teachers/students are more used to the syllabus plus there are more resources and exam papers. Also, teachers generally think that the 2018 exams were easier than 2017, particularly for Edexcel.

The stats show that whenever a new spec is introduced, the first year always has the worse results and they get better over the following years. If this happens in 2018 then the grade boundaries will go up to compensate for increased performance.

I haven't seen any prediction from teachers that say that maths boundaries will go down - everyone thinks they will go up. Of course there is no guarantee but it doesn't make sense to predict that they will go down IMO. I'm less familiar with English so I won't comment on that.

Predictions for the other subjects are very hard to make. Last year most predictions for the new 9-1 exam boundaries were wildly wrong. What probably will happen for the majority of subjects is that the boundaries will be lower than pre-9-1. But what they will be is still very much up in the air.

I agree that Daily Mail articles concerning GCSEs are generally garbage and oftentimes controversial to attract readers but I am simply making a point: Why should we assume that grade boundaries will go up when we have no evidence of that. By that logic I can assume the grade boundaries will go down!

Predictions For AQA English Language Grade Boundaries 2018:

125/160 - 9
116/160 - 8
107/160 - 7
96/160 - 6
86/160 - 5
76/160 - 4
59/160 - 3
39/160 - 2
18/160 - 1
17 or below - U

I reckon science will be so low tbh.
For example :
Biology
4-26
5-34
6-44
7 56
8-62
9-71

I would cry if it was this!!! 🙏🏼🙌🏽

Off happiness? I reckon it’s realistic tbh, look at AQA. A level biology 65 % for an a*. In addition last year it was like 82% for an a* and last year maths and English went down by around 16-17% so do the Maths

Yeh off happiness! I’m hoping for a 9 but It’s so hard to predict what we’ll get

I reckon you’ll be on for a 9 if you can get 70 ish x

I knew what the circuit looked like, but like it was my last exam and my brain just went into overdrive and I barely knew what to write

I reckon science will be so low tbh.
For example :
Biology
4-26
5-34
6-44
7 56
8-62
9-71

I feel that the boundaries for a 9 and 8 are a bit too low, in my opinion they need to be raised by 5 and 3 percentage points respectively.

Historically, the science grade boundaries are a few percentage points then maths and maths last year was 79% for a 9 so I would just take off a 3 percentage point to give 76% for a 9.

Wait science is Lower than maths? I always thought maths was lower than science

I honestly would not guess grade boundaries.

Why? Take the new AS/A-level Maths grade boundaries.

Some of the ones made before were bizzare and almost 90% of the predictions made on TSR were wrong and simply stressed out students.

were they lower or higher than people predicted?