Maths teachers/examiners - edexcel grade boundaries please

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Do you know what grade boundaries are, roughly, for Edexcel GCSE higher maths please? DD said they'd been told 25% was a C which seems awfully low, even for a higher paper? She struggles with maths, needs a C ideally a B, hence the question. Thanks

You should be able to get last year's from the edexcel website. Word of warning though - they don't necessarily stay exactly the same every year. For a ballpark figure though, have a look. It can be quite interesting. In my subject, last year's exam required 58/60 for an A* and 57/60 for an A. 50% would have put them at an E.

The lowest grade obtainable on a maths higher paper is a D so you don't have to do brilliantly to get a C. I can't get online to check right now but as a ballpark figure we would use 70% -A* 60% -A 50%-B 40%-C 30%-D. So 25% does seem low. I am a maths teacher btw.

Thanks everyone, hard to navigate the website on my phone, will check it out on laptop later

If you Google "Edexcel gcse grade boundaries June" and then add a year, you'll get links straight to pdfs. Change the year to get some feel for how it varies. You want the raw marks.

General EDEXCEL boundaries we use (Maths Dept) are 80-85% A*, 65% A, 50% B, 33% C grade - all for higher paper.

There have been some recent cases where, with the change in specification from 2012, the boundaries have been lowered as the exam was viewed as 'difficult'. I do remember one year (recently) a 'C' grade being 25% but the EDEXCEL website is playing up at the moment and I can not find exactly which year it was. This is however unusually low. The problem is that we can not predict what the boundaries will be and there are so many political issues in the pot who knows?

Thanks woodland. Even if not as low as 25%, seems C is lower % than I'd expected