STEP grade boundaries

Does anyone have a list of grade boundaries on recent papers? I seem to remember seeing one once, but can't find anything after a relatively exhaustive search on the net.

Reply 1

DFranklin

Exhaustive search?

The first hit if you google 'STEP grade boundaries' gives them for 2000-2005.

Reply 2

Square

2000 S 1 2 3
Step I 91/120 69/120 50/120 38/120
Step Ii 91/120 65/120 48/120 32/120
Step Iii 88/120 66/120 50/120 39/120

2001 S 1 2 3
Step I 85/120 66/120 50/120 41/120
Step Ii 85/120 62/120 47/120 32/120
Step Iii 77/120 59/120 46/120 32/120

2002 S 1 2 3
Step I 80/120 61/120 48/120 35/120
Step Ii 90/120 65/120 40/120 32/120
Step Iii 77/120 56/120 43/120 32/12

2003 S 1 2 3
Step I 94/120 78/120 60/120 43/120
Step Ii 95/120 70/120 55/120 37/120
Step Iii 77/120 56/120 43/120 33/120

2004 S 1 2 3
Step I 90/120 72/120 55/120 43/120
Step Ii 82/120 60/20 49/120 36/120
Step Iii 75/120 56/120 43/120 33/120

2005 S 1 2 3
Step I 96/120 80/120 62/120 45/120
Step Ii 89/120 64/120 49/120 31/120
Step Iii 80/120 59/120 47/120 35/120

Reply 3

wiio

Ah thanks, I'm clearly pretty inept in my use of search engines, that fairly obvious combination of words never occurred to me...

thanks

Reply 4

OSmith

Does there happen to be any grade boundaries for older papers than the 2000s? (Looking for 1997 II)

Reply 5

Jkn

Original post by OSmith

Does there happen to be any grade boundaries for older papers than the 2000s? (Looking for 1997 II)

I'm not sure, but there are these:

2012

STEP I: 93 - 77 - 54 -35
STEP II: 91 - 72 - 60 - 31
STEP III: 84 - 65 - 53 - 32

(edited 11 years ago)

Reply 6

OSmith

Original post by Jkn

I'm not sure, but there are these:

2012

STEP I: 93 - 77 - 54 -35
STEP II: 91 - 72 - 60 - 31
STEP III: 84 - 65 - 53 - 32

Ok thanks, I've seen them before :smile:

but do you happen to know about older ones than 2000?

Reply 7

Jkn

Original post by OSmith

Ok thanks, I've seen them before :smile:

but do you happen to know about older ones than 2000?

No.. sorry.. I haven't been able to track them down!

Though I would argue that they are of no importance whatsoever! The syllabus for a-level was different back then and so there is roughly 2 questions per paper that are irrelevant to what you would find on a current STEP paper! Ignoring these questions would ever so slightly influence the score you would have otherwise got and this influence is likely to be of the same order of magnitude of the variance of the grade boundaries (making them irrelevant!) Use the mean grade boundaries for each paper as the boundaries for pre-2000 :smile: