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Factsheet: How do A level exam marks become grades?
Last updated: 29 April 2004
Look at any results slip and you will see that an AS qualification has a maximum of 300 marks from the three different AS units.
In some subjects, the three units will be worth 100 marks each. In others, the marks available for each unit are slightly different. This is also the case for A2 units.
Each exam paper is unique and so the difficulty of the exam may vary slightly from year to year.
From the ‘raw marks’, senior examiners in each subject use their professional judgement to decide on the grade boundaries for each paper.
To find out more about how A level marks are turned into grades, QCA has produced a factsheet which you can download here.