What will the 2025 AQA A-Level grade boundaries be?

What will the 2025 AQA A-Level grade boundaries be?

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2025 AQA A-Level grade boundaries

  • 17 August was the date that the 2023 A-level results were released. The UCAS Clearing procedure, open between 5 July to 17 October is where A-Level students track the status of their university applications.

However, Ucas Track does not display the precise A-level grades; this information must be obtained directly from your school or college.
Nevertheless, a positive response from your preferred university within Ucas Track often provides a strong indication of your attained grades.

Ucas Track typically becomes accessible between 8 am and 8:30 am on results day, following a period of temporary closure in the preceding days.

 

2024 A-Level grade boundaries

School Entrance Tests answer the following key A-Level results and A-Level grade boundary questions:

– When will 2025 A-Level pupils receive their results?

– What do the 2025 A-Level grades mean?

– Which 2025 A-level mark is a pass?

Here’s our popular Passed Papers You Tube channel.

Two Summary points 2from previous years’ A-Level results

  1. Overall A level results are higher than in 2019. Outcomes at grade A are 35.9% compared with 25.2% in 2019, and outcomes at grade B and above are 62.2% compared with 51.1% in 2019.
  2. Overall AS results are higher than in 2019. Outcomes at grade A are 25.2% compared to 20.1% in 2019. Entries for AS have fluctuated in recent years, making it much more difficult to interpret any changes.

2022 A-Level Infographics

Centre type201920212022
Academies24.142.135.0
Free schools35.248.945.2
FE establishment12.729.216.5
Independent44.770.458.0
Other23.252.028.7
Secondary comprehensive20.539.430.7
Secondary modern18.536.427.8
Secondary selective36.356.550.4
Sixth form college22.035.331.9
Tertiary college20.734.327.5

2022 A-Level Centre variability compared to 2021 A-levels

Ofqual’s interactive visualisation shows the level of variation in schools’ and colleges’ A level results compared to 2019.

Centre type201920212022
Academies24.142.135.0
Free schools35.248.945.2
FE establishment12.729.216.5
Independent44.770.458.0
Other23.252.028.7
Secondary comprehensive20.539.430.7
Secondary modern18.536.427.8
Secondary selective36.356.550.4
Sixth form college22.035.331.9
Tertiary college20.734.327.5

 

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Previous year 2021 A-Level grade boundaries

45% of 2021 A-levels were either A* or A. This is much higher than 2019’s top A-Level grades (26%).

Hence, according to the Head of Ofqual, firstly every single school should expect to see its GCSE and A-level grades fall this summer compared to 2021 GCSEs and 2021 A-Levels. Secondly, 2022 A-Level grade boundaries will be set to reflect 2019 and 2021’s midpoint. The intention being to reverse the earlier years’ A-Level grade inflation.

 

EdExcel A-Level grade boundaries 2022

2201_IAL_Subject_Grade_Boundaries_complete_v3 (2022 Edexcel International AS and A level grade boundaries 2022)

A-Level grade-boundaries-january-2021-ial (2021 Edexcel International AS and A level grade boundaries 2021)

The above documents show the 2022 A-Level grade boundaries and 2021 A-Level grade boundaries.

These are both for Pearson EdExcel’s International AS and A level qualifications. Also shown are the maximum number of available A-Level 2022 marks and individual A-Level 2022 units.

 

Example A-Level grade boundaries 2022

Assume a B A-Level grade boundary is 60 marks; 60 is the minimum mark at which a B can be achieved. A mark of 59 would therefore be a C grade.

Raw mark grade boundaries may change from exam session to exam session to take into account variations in the difficulty of assessments.

A Certifying Statement of Provisional Results (results slip) will always show the UMS mark for modular qualifications.

You can find out more about Pearson 2022 A-Level grade boundaries

 

Ofqual A-Level assessment materials

Ofqual published questions in advance which teachers can use to help assess students’ grades. The A Level exam boards published online a bank of A Level questions from past A Level papers which teachers can use to test their A Level pupils.

Noting that these 2021 A Level questions are not the sole source of evidence for teachers to use. Additional sources of teacher assessment evidence includes:”, with evidence such as

  • 2021 A Level coursework.
  • A Level class work 2021.
  • 2021 A Level mock exam results.

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