ESAT Grade Boundary Prediction

Nearly all students agree that the October 2024 ESAT was more challenging than the practice paper offered on the Pearson Vue website. Do we have a prediction of the grade boundaries for modules Maths 1, Maths 2, and Physics?

I took the ESAT on 15 October 2024, and my prediction (educated guess) of the grade boundaries for achieving Grade 9 (highest grade) in the three modules are as follows:

Maths 1: 23/27
Maths 2: 20/27
Physics: 24/27

What are your predictions?

Reply 1

AoiJuniper

ngl I found maths 1 harder than maths 2

Reply 2

axsh06

Original post by AoiJuniper

ngl I found maths 1 harder than maths 2

I think the different days had different difficulty papers coz today ppl found maths 2 way harder but maths 1 easier so idek

Reply 3

AoiJuniper

Original post by axsh06

I think the different days had different difficulty papers coz today ppl found maths 2 way harder but maths 1 easier so idek

ahh that's kinda annoying. physics was the only section i feel like i did well on.

Reply 4

samrogers31

Original post by QuantumYitian

Nearly all students agree that the October 2024 ESAT was more challenging than the practice paper offered on the Pearson Vue website. Do we have a prediction of the grade boundaries for modules Maths 1, Maths 2, and Physics?
I took the ESAT on 15 October 2024, and my prediction (educated guess) of the grade boundaries for achieving Grade 9 (highest grade) in the three modules are as follows:
Maths 1: 23/27
Maths 2: 20/27
Physics: 24/27
What are your predictions?

thank god i wasn’t the only one who thought it was so difficult both the maths sections. The ones on the website were so much easier. A girl who did it at my place started crying from it to

Reply 5

axsh06

Original post by axsh06

I think the different days had different difficulty papers coz today ppl found maths 2 way harder but maths 1 easier so idek

Then how are they going to get a score for people… it would be unfair for both parties if they just used the scores. Now I’m even more scared coz if they used todays maths 1 with yesterdays then yesterdays students are at a big disadvantage and vice versa

Reply 6

AoiJuniper

Original post by axsh06

yepp

Reply 7

AUSTTTTTIN

I strongly hope that, based on the conversion data on ENGAA adv math & phy and NSAA part E, the tolerance for math 2 in 27 questions is greater than we imagined. Anyway, hope the threshold is low🙏

Reply 8

axsh06

Hello, for everyone who did the esat could you guys give your approx marks that you think you got foreach sections and what day you did them. That way I can put it into a spread sheet and then we can seewhat averages are etc For Eg For me October 15th maths 1 15-16 Maths 2 17-18 Physics 22-23

Reply 9

simonmorrish

If you are trying to guess the grade boundaries, I'll post here the last four years of score conversion charts for NSAA. The red line is my estimated score conversion - the mean minus half a stddev as a safety margin. As you can see, it's generally easiest to get a 9 in physics, but then the average scores of successful Cambridge applicants tend to be higher in physics, so perhaps it evens out.

Obviously they are out of 20 and the ESAT is out of 27; but if you can do the ESAT, you can scale that in your head, blindfold, while ignoring someone cursing how hard their driving theory test is :wink: