Scottish National 5 grade values?

[3nationsfamily]

I have trawled the SQA sites and google but can't find anywhere the marking for grades in the new National 5's. I know they will be graded A-C rather than 1-4 etc but nowhere can I find that e.g. 75%+ = A 60-75% = B etc. Does anyone know the answer or is it one of those "it depends" situations? Thanks for any help/ links

Oddly enough, I was doing the same at lunchtime and didn't find anything. dd is in the middle of her National 5 Prelims, and doesn't have a clue about Grade Boundaries.

I assume the actual exam results will be scaled anyway...

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Call SQA. The customer service team are good, if they don't know the answer you'll get through to someone in the CfE team.

I've tried tying to understand this knew system and it just seems like gibberish.

Hopefully someone will come along to explain it all.

I'm happy to be corrected on this one but my understanding is that even for SG, Int, H and AH, the grade boundaries are never set until after the papers are marked. In school we tend to use notational cut-offs of 50%, 60% and 70%.

crack it must be worrying for the parents given all the recent stories in the press about teachers worries. I'm in East Ren, my DS would have been in the first cohort for CfE this year but the LA deferred it to next year. I was glad about that tbh.

Am a secondary teacher in Scotland and AFAIK, subject to a little variation, it'll be similar cut off points to the higher/ intermediate courses that have gone before. So an A = 80%, B = 65%, C = 50%. That's an approximation though and may vary from subject to subject.

Ah - so it has changed since I was at school. When I sat O'Grades and Highers 70% was the cut-off for an A.

In some subjects it is around 70%.

So I see I'm not the only one confused! There doesn't seem to be an absolute definitive answer. My DD is in S3 so we have a year to go before prelims but just wanting to see how her class test results would indicate a grade outcome. I might ring the SQA direct to see if there is a straight answer out there once and for all. Thanks for all the comments.

It will be the same as it was for previous qualifications.

As a previous poster said the boundaries change from year to year depending on the difficulty of a paper.

For higher an A will generally be 75% plus but may be as low as 70% or as high as 78%. I'd expect N5 to be the same.

Yes, the boundaries may be adjusted so no point in publishing them before hand.

I think it's safe to say that the results for national 5 will all be very good this year. The SQA will not want to publish poor results in its first year of a new qualification. I am to mark nat 5 English exams so will be interesting to see what is said at the big meeting beforehand.