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AQA GCSE Physical Education grade calculator

Type a mark from a mock or a past paper to see the grade it would have got on AQA's own grade boundaries, for the newest series and every year before it. It runs in this browser, so nothing you type is sent to us.

Type a mark to see the grade it would have got on AQA GCSE Physical Education's past boundaries.

How the boundaries have moved

A grade 7 needed 65.8% of the marks in June 2018 and 72.3% in June 2026.

Physical Education
40%60%80%2018201920222023202420252026June 2018: grade 7 needed 171 out of 260 (65.8%)June 2019: grade 7 needed 175 out of 260 (67.3%)June 2022: grade 7 needed 178 out of 260 (68.5%)June 2023: grade 7 needed 181 out of 260 (69.6%)June 2024: grade 7 needed 178 out of 260 (68.5%)June 2025: grade 7 needed 190 out of 260 (73.1%)June 2026: grade 7 needed 188 out of 260 (72.3%)7June 2018: grade 4 needed 124 out of 260 (47.7%)June 2019: grade 4 needed 129 out of 260 (49.6%)June 2022: grade 4 needed 126 out of 260 (48.5%)June 2023: grade 4 needed 127 out of 260 (48.8%)June 2024: grade 4 needed 126 out of 260 (48.5%)June 2025: grade 4 needed 142 out of 260 (54.6%)June 2026: grade 4 needed 136 out of 260 (52.3%)4

Each point is the lowest mark for that grade in the June series, as a percentage of the total. A solid line is the higher grade and a dashed line the lower one.

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Physical Education
SeriesGrade 7Grade 4
June 2026188/260 (72.3%)136/260 (52.3%)
June 2025190/260 (73.1%)142/260 (54.6%)
June 2024178/260 (68.5%)126/260 (48.5%)
June 2023181/260 (69.6%)127/260 (48.8%)
June 2022178/260 (68.5%)126/260 (48.5%)
June 2019175/260 (67.3%)129/260 (49.6%)
June 2018171/260 (65.8%)124/260 (47.7%)

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Common questions

What mark do you need for each grade in GCSE Physical Education?

In June 2026, a grade 7 needed 188 out of 260 and a grade 4 needed 136. Boundaries are set again for every series, so these are last time's marks rather than the next exam's.

Is a mock exam grade the same as the real grade?

Not always. Schools often mark mocks against an older year's boundaries, sometimes more strictly to leave room to improve, and the real exam's boundaries are set only after it has been marked. A grade from a mock is a useful guide to where things stand, not a prediction of the result.

Can I work out a grade from one paper?

As a rough guide, yes: AQA publishes a boundary for each paper, which it calls notional, and the calculator uses those. The real grade comes from the marks for all the papers added together, so one strong or weak paper can be balanced by the others.

Why does the same mark get a different grade in different years?

Boundaries are set after each exam is marked, so that a grade means the same standard even when one year's paper is harder than another's. A harder paper usually has lower boundaries, so the same mark can be worth a higher grade.

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.