With exam season well underway thoughts will be turning to results days in August. This summer's GCSEs, AS and and A levels have returned to more normality since Covid, but there have been some alterations to take into account pandemic disruption.
Summer 2023 results are expected to be lower than the record high grades awarded on teacher assessment in 2020 and lower than results in 2021 and 2022, but still higher than pre-pandemic. Exams have always varied each year, regardless of Covid changes, so grade boundaries are used to help achieve fairness.
Grade boundaries are the minimum number of marks needed to achieve each grade and vary each year to reflect differences in papers. They are published by exam boards on results days and are aimed at ensuring that whenever the exam is sat, students receive the same grade for the same level of performance. To get our free daily briefing on the biggest issues affecting the nation, Wales Matters here
