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Sociology AQA grade boundaries...can anybody advise?

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Tissunnyupnorth · 29/08/2017 20:11

Was looking at my daughters marks for her two Sociology papers today. She got 80 for paper one (is this a percentage or raw score?) and was graded A and 74 for paper 2 and was graded B. That is all the info I have, apart from her final grade being B. I just can't work out how this was achieved if I look at the grade boundaries provided by AQA, which are as follows. Can anybody tell me how her overall B was worked out?

Sociology AQA grade boundaries...can anybody advise?
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titchy · 29/08/2017 21:12

80 UMS is just an A (79 would be a B), 74 is a B - grade boundaries are in 10s (so 70-79 is B, 60-69 C etc). Assuming both papers equally weighted then average UMS is 77 so mid-high B.

titchy · 29/08/2017 21:14

Grade boundaries published are raw marks, not the UMS.

Tissunnyupnorth · 30/08/2017 13:59

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to explain.

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booellesmum · 30/08/2017 14:10

If you go to www.aqa.org.uk
Click on grade boundaries, then scroll down and look for the ums grade boundaries download.
This will help.

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