Finally,
grade boundaries get adjusted to reflect national performance.
Not exact matches
This has raised concerns that this is causing anxiety for pupils in light of what has been put on social media and therefore this year's
boundaries will be posted the same day that pupils
get their
grades.
«We still haven't
got our head around what the
grade boundaries are because no - one will provide us with any.
They will say that between January and June 2012 it was decided that too many students were going to
get a C
grade or better in GCSE English, so a decision was taken to push up
grade boundaries for the exams marked in June to bring down the numbers of good
grades for the year as a whole.
«While
grade boundaries can therefore vary between exam series, students can be confident that the
grade they
get for an overall qualification one year would be the same the next.»
«What appears to have happened is that, halfway through the year, it was decided that too many students were going to
get a C
grade in English and the
grade boundaries of the exam were pushed up very substantially.
The group argues that changes to the
grade boundaries between January and June meant that pupils with the same mark
got different
grades.
«Having seen
grade boundaries moved between January and June, and papers regraded in Wales but not England or Northern Ireland, it is our feeling that the drop in the number of students
getting five A * to C including English and mathematics is related to this.
What is the last
boundary before
getting A +
grade for your essay writing?