What are the grade boundaries for GCSE Geography?
The grade boundaries change from year to year, although broadly they stay the same. Your GCSE will probably be made up of coursework and examinations, which do not have an equal weighting. Each component (two exams plus coursework?) will be given a “raw mark”. The coursework is marked by your teacher and then “moderated” by an examiner. The examiner can adjust your teacher’s mark, if they think it is not accurately marked. Your exam marks are then added to give you a “total raw mark”. Your mark is then converted by a complicated formula into a “uniform mark” to enable comparison with previous years’ exam papers. The chief examiners then hold a meeting to see if they think the paper is equally difficult in comparison with previous years. They will then adjust the grade boundaries for the raw marks to get the appropriate number of students passing at the top grades. Ask your teacher to show you last year’s “results broadsheet” which will give you an idea of how many marks you need to sco
