A Level Maths Grade Boundaries
AQA, Edexcel, OCR A and OCR MEI · June 2018 to June 2025 · official exam board figures
How A Level Maths grades are actually worked out
Your grade comes from your total mark across every paper, not from each paper separately. A Level Maths is marked out of 300 for AQA, Edexcel and OCR A (275 for OCR MEI), and the boundaries below are the totals you needed for each grade.
So a weak paper can be pulled back by a strong one. If you score 55 on Paper 1 and 85 on Paper 2, what counts is the 140 – there is no separate pass mark to clear on any individual paper.
Exam boards do also publish “notional component” boundaries for single papers, but they label them as illustrative only and they play no part in your result. They are left off this page deliberately, because reading them as real grade boundaries gives a misleading picture.
Reading the covid years
- No exams Summer 2020 and 2021 were cancelled. Grades were assessed by teachers, so no boundaries exist.
- Autumn resit series Real exams, but a small self-selecting entry. Boundaries came out low and are a poor guide to a normal year.
- Transition year June 2022 was graded midway between 2019 and 2021 on purpose. Its boundaries are the lowest of any real series here.
- Allowance for disruption June 2023 returned to pre-pandemic standards, with some allowance built in for lost teaching.
Unmarked series – 2018, 2019, 2024 and 2025 – were graded normally. If you want one realistic benchmark for what a paper needs today, use 2024 or 2025.
Edexcel grade boundaries
Edexcel official grade boundariesA Level Mathematics 9MA0
Marked out of 300| Series | A* | A | B | C | D | E | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 258 86% | 214 71% | 178 59% | 142 47% | 106 35% | 71 24% | |
| June 2024 | 251 84% | 205 68% | 167 56% | 130 43% | 93 31% | 56 19% | |
| June 2023 Allowance for disruption | 244 81% | 196 65% | 158 53% | 121 40% | 84 28% | 47 16% | |
| June 2022 Transition year - graded low | 217 72% | 164 55% | 130 43% | 96 32% | 62 21% | 28 9% | |
| Autumn 2021 Autumn resit series | 207 69% | 157 52% | 128 43% | 99 33% | 70 23% | 42 14% | |
| Summer 2021 | No exams Exams cancelled – grades were assessed by teachers, so no boundaries were set. | ||||||
| Autumn 2020 Autumn resit series | 214 71% | 162 54% | 130 43% | 99 33% | 68 23% | 37 12% | |
| Summer 2020 | No exams Exams cancelled – grades were assessed by teachers, so no boundaries were set. | ||||||
| June 2019 | 217 72% | 165 55% | 134 45% | 103 34% | 73 24% | 43 14% | |
| June 2018 | 229 76% | 184 61% | 155 52% | 126 42% | 98 33% | 70 23% | |
AS Mathematics 8MA0
Marked out of 160| Series | A | B | C | D | E | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | 108 68% | 95 59% | 82 51% | 69 43% | 57 36% | |
| June 2024 | 105 66% | 90 56% | 75 47% | 61 38% | 47 29% | |
| June 2023 Allowance for disruption | 103 64% | 90 56% | 77 48% | 64 40% | 52 33% | |
| June 2022 Transition year - graded low | 95 59% | 80 50% | 65 41% | 50 31% | 36 23% | |
| Autumn 2021 Autumn resit series | 91 57% | 76 48% | 61 38% | 46 29% | 32 20% | |
| Summer 2021 | No exams Exams cancelled – grades were assessed by teachers, so no boundaries were set. | |||||
| Autumn 2020 Autumn resit series | 93 58% | 76 48% | 59 37% | 43 27% | 27 17% | |
| Summer 2020 | No exams Exams cancelled – grades were assessed by teachers, so no boundaries were set. | |||||
| June 2019 | 101 63% | 87 54% | 74 46% | 61 38% | 48 30% | |
| June 2018 | 105 66% | 90 56% | 75 47% | 61 38% | 47 29% | |
What covid did to grade boundaries
Five of the ten series on this page are affected. Comparing your mock against the wrong one will give you a badly misleading idea of where you stand, so it is worth knowing which is which.
- Summer 2020 and summer 2021 – no exams at all
- Both series were cancelled. In 2020 grades came from centres, and in 2021 from teacher assessment. No papers were sat, so no boundaries were ever set. They appear on this page as empty rows on purpose – the data is not missing, it does not exist.
- Autumn 2020 and autumn 2021 – real exams, unusual entry
- Replacement series were run for students who wanted to sit papers rather than take an assessed grade. These boundaries are genuine, but the entry was small and self-selecting, and the figures sit well below the summer series either side of them. Useful history, poor benchmark.
- June 2022 – graded deliberately low
- The first summer exams back were graded midway between 2019 and 2021, as a planned step towards pre-pandemic standards. That makes 2022 the most generous real series here, and the worst one to measure yourself against.
- June 2023 – back to normal, with a cushion
- Grading returned to pre-pandemic standards, but with allowance built in for the teaching students had lost, so boundaries stayed a little softer than a straight 2019 comparison.
Grading policy above is Ofqual's, set out in its approach to grading in summer 2022 and autumn 2021 and grading in summer 2023 and autumn 2022. The boundary figures themselves are the exam boards' own, linked on every row.
Where these numbers come from
Every figure is taken from the exam board's own published grade boundary document for that series – the PDF link on each row opens the exact source. No third-party data is used anywhere on this page.
Boundaries change every year because they are set after each series to match the difficulty of that particular paper. Nobody knows next summer's boundaries in advance – these are a guide to the range, not a prediction.