AQA GCSE Biology Paper 1 (Higher), Specimen
AQA's Paper 1 (Higher) for Biology (8461), from its specimen papers. Each link opens the board's own PDF on filestore.aqa.org.uk in a new tab.
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Grade boundaries for this paper
There is no table for Specimen, so these are the June 2018 boundaries for the same paper (8461/1H), the nearest series we have. Boundaries move a little from year to year. A grade for one paper on its own is only a guide; the real grade comes from all the papers together.
| Grade | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark | 64 | 56 | 48 | 40 | 32 | 25 | 18 |
Every paper's boundaries for June 2018AQA grade boundaries, GCSE June 2018 (opens filestore.aqa.org.uk in a new tab)
More for AQA GCSE Biology
The other Specimen papers
This paper in other years
Every AQA GCSE Biology paper is on the Biology past papers page, and AQA's own list is on its website (opens aqa.org.uk in a new tab).
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