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Combined science grades

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Alsoplayspiccolo · 09/09/2019 11:25

Can someone please clarify how combined science grades would be presented on a school's results table?

For example, would a 66 be entered twice for each student attaining it, as it is worth 2 GCSE grade 6s?
And would they enter a 65 as a 5 overall?

There still seems to be some confusion as to what the double grades actually mean; I just watched a YouTube video by a science teacher who said that 65 means you have achieved a 6 and a 5, whereas another teacher said it means you have two 5s, but both at the higher end of the grade boundary.

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sanityisamyth · 09/09/2019 13:19

@Comefromaway a grade 1 is not a pass. It is a grade. A grade 4 is a pass. A grade 5 is a "strong pass"

Combined science is worth two GCSEs so there are two grades. They add up all the marks for the six papers sat and work it out against the grade boundaries. It depends on the marks achieved and the grade boundaries.

They can award a 4-3 if they have reached the marks for that point on the grade scale but not enough for a 4-4.

Technically a 4-3 would be 1 GCSE pass grade. A 4-4 would be 2 GCSE passes.

TeenPlusTwenties · 09/09/2019 13:18

come Remind me, are you speaking from a position of knowledge (eg a teacher in an FE college)? It would be nice to have a definitive answer, though of course I could just ask the relevant college I suppose!

Comefromaway · 09/09/2019 13:12

Well technically a Grade 1 is a pass but in terms of college applications if a college needs five passes the 4 3 will count as 1 pass (grade 4 or above). If they require 5 good passes it will not count as a good pass is seen as Grade 5.

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Alsoplayspiccolo · 09/09/2019 13:11

clary, that's my understanding too.
I can't see how they could award a 4 AND a 3, when the total marks for all papers ( all 6) are combined.

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clary · 09/09/2019 12:45

I thought 4-3 meant you hadn't passed at all, it's equivalent to 2 x 3.5 as it were. Just going off other threads on the issue tho. It's certainly not clear!

TeenPlusTwenties · 09/09/2019 12:28

If you get a 4-3, have you passed 0 GCSEs or 1 GCSE?

So say you needed 5 passes for a college course and got 5,5,5,5, 4-3, 2,2,2 would you have your 5 passes or not?

Comefromaway · 09/09/2019 11:50

And it was Synergy not Trilogy (I obviusly can't read tables properly!)

Comefromaway · 09/09/2019 11:49

Thats 2018 results sorry, not 2019.

Comefromaway · 09/09/2019 11:48

Combned Science is worth 2 GCSE's so you get two grades. 6 5 means you have one grade 6 and 1 grade 5.

Last years grade boundaries for AQA Trilogy Higher Tier show that if you got an overall mark of 143/400 you got 6 6, a mark of 126 would have got you a 6 5 and a mark of 109 would have got 5 5.

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