Does anyone know about Gcse scoring please

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If a child scored 47 out of 200 on an intermediate (old) test in school what grade would that be?

The new 1-9 GCSE Maths does have two tiers.

I know that. Maths and Science are tiered. That's a lot of subjects that aren't.

Maths and Science were the only 2 GCSE subjects that had 3 tiers: Foundation, Intermediate and Higher.
It was phased out for Science in the late 1990s.

I thought it was only Maths that was tiered in the last few years. Is Science tiered in the new 1-9ers?

Sorry to sound a bit thick. What does tiered mean? Does it mean that there is an easier paper which might be capped at a grade 5 ( old style c ish)?

Science is tiered at the moment. I think it is in 1-9 too.

Current GCSEs, foundation is C to G, higher is A* -E. Most subjects are tiered now. Not sure if any aren't'.

New GCSEs, Maths and Science are tiered, the only ones I think. Higher 9-4, foundation 5-1. All others one set of papers to cover the full range of grades. Thus lower percentages for the lower grades than you would need on a foundation tier paper. Either that or crazy amounts of redundancy and very close grade boundaries, as with IGCSE currently.

Yes the new 1-9 science GCSE will have a foundation & higher tier.

All this is very confusing for me. My daughter insists that the igcse exam in maths she took in january that she got 62% on would give her an A grade igcse result. That makes no sene to me, you can NOT know 38% of the material and still get an A. She's in yr 10 right now.

That's more or less right for higher tier. An A* would require between 82-84 ish percent depending on the year.

IGCSE is not tiered in quite the same way as GCSEs. The grade boundaries are low and very narrow.