A level biology and chemistry

I just wanna ask that I achieved 60 marks out of 120 and got b and the minimum marks was to get b was also 60 in my AS levels CIE in 2023 may June. I am just worried that could I get an A* now in A level as a whole..........

Reply 1

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by Aliraza.

Are you sure about that mark? Both CIE AS level Chemistry and Biology have a total of 140 raw marks (40 marks from paper 1, 60 marks from paper 2, and 40 marks from paper 3). Once scaled (as the papers are not all equally weighted) they're out of 130 marks.

I assume your mark was for CIE Chemistry AS level, right? Last year, had you done option S3 (components 12, 22, 33) or option S4 (components 12, 22, 34) then the grade boundary for a grade B would have been 60 out of 130. So that's what I assume your mark was. (source)

That AS score represents 50% of the A level. For an A* at A level, you'd have needed a scaled score of 197 out of 260. So that'd mean getting 137 out of 130 (scaled) for the two A level papers. That's clearly not going to happen, unfortunately. :frown:

Reply 2

Blink star

Original post by Aliraza.

You try another one

Reply 3

Aliraza.

Original post by DataVenia

Are you sure about that mark? Both CIE AS level Chemistry and Biology have a total of 140 raw marks (40 marks from paper 1, 60 marks from paper 2, and 40 marks from paper 3). Once scaled (as the papers are not all equally weighted) they're out of 130 marks.
I assume your mark was for CIE Chemistry AS level, right? Last year, had you done option S3 (components 12, 22, 33) or option S4 (components 12, 22, 34) then the grade boundary for a grade B would have been 60 out of 130. So that's what I assume your mark was. (source)
That AS score represents 50% of the A level. For an A* at A level, you'd have needed a scaled score of 197 out of 260. So that'd mean getting 137 out of 130 (scaled) for the two A level papers. That's clearly not going to happen, unfortunately. :frown:

So at least may be Only A or B. That would be possible I think...

Reply 4

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by Aliraza.

So at least may be Only A or B. That would be possible I think...

Correct.

An grade A would be possible, if your marks were high enough. (Based upon last year's boundaries, you'd need 161 out of 260 in total, so 101 out of 130 across the two A level papers.)

A grade B would perhaps be more realistic.