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GCSE top grade boundaries

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stubiff · 08/09/2016 13:12

For those interested in the new top grade boundaries, please see here.
www.gov.uk/government/news/how-the-top-grades-will-be-awarded-in-new-gcses-in-2017

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yeOldeTrout · 08/09/2016 14:18

I can't even make sense of that.
I could understand normalising the grade distribution (O-level style).
Or grade = threshold for knowledge (previous GCSE style).
This seems 2 b a weird mash up of both systems!

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tiggytape · 08/09/2016 18:18

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yeOldeTrout · 08/09/2016 19:30

3.7 or 4.2, they both round to 4.

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