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What does my child’s mock mark mean?

Pick the course, then type the mock mark to see the grade it would have got on the board’s real boundaries. It runs in this browser and nothing is sent to us.

GCSE

81 courses

A level

92 courses

National 5

17 courses

Higher

19 courses

Advanced Higher

14 courses

IGCSE

31 courses

What a mock grade tells you

What grade is my child’s mock mark?

Pick the course here and type the mark: the calculator shows the grade it would have got on the exam board’s own boundaries, for each year we hold. If the school gave a grade, it may have used its own boundaries, which is why the two can differ.

Does a mock grade predict the real one?

No. A mock is usually an older paper, or one the school put together, sat months before the exam and marked by a teacher, so it shows where things stand now. What helps most is looking at which questions lost marks and why.

What should we do after a disappointing mock?

Go through the paper with the mark scheme and sort the lost marks into topics not known, time and the way answers were written; each needs something different. Doing more past papers from the same board, marked against the mark scheme, is the usual next step.

More for mock season: a guide to mock exams for parents, how to get a past paper marked.

cookie is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any exam board. Every paper here is a link to the board's own copy on its own website, and the papers belong to the boards that set them. If a link has stopped working, the board's own past paper page is linked on each course. The grade boundaries are copied from the boards’ own published documents, each linked under its table.