AQA ADDITIONAL SPECIMEN PAPERS - GRADE BOUNDARIES

Does anyone have the grade boundaries for the specimen papers for this exam found on AQA website....Mys econd in charge manage to find the specimen papers on the website....Should I take 70% of total marks roughly as the A* grade...and on foundation..70% as c grade...

sciencebloke

 

Does anyone have the grade boundaries for the specimen papers for this exam found on AQA website....Mys econd in charge manage to find the specimen papers on the website....Should I take 70% of total marks roughly as the A* grade...and on foundation..70% as c grade...

sciencebloke

 

There are none published for the specimen papers. We used them as mocks and moderated after the exams were taken to come up with grade boundaries (for separate sciences). In fact, the boundaries we ended up with were not disimilar from the 'legacy' grade boundaries for the co-ordinated papers.

 

Thanks

You would have thought AQA would have done this for the specimen paper..

 

AQA or any exam board will only set grade boundaries after an exam has taken place and they have lots of results to go on. Obviously this process has not happened for the specimen papers so rather than guessing (and getting lots of complaints from us when it turns out to be different in the actual exams) they say nothing which also generates lots of complaints.

I can't see why they don't level the questions (as happens in the SATs) so the teachers could make a reasonable judgement as to what would be expected

 

Our HOD called the aqa board and they said the best indicator were the grade boundaries for the summer exam. This was the average mark of all three papers. If I remember correctley we worked out the grade boundries to be

Higher A* 73%, A 62%, B 50%, C 39%, D 27%

Foundation C 55%, D 46%, E 36%, F 27%, G 17%

Hope this helps

 

That looks similar to the boundaries we used for higher tier papers.