AQA A-level Further Maths grade boundaries 2025: every option pair

AQA A-level Further Maths grade boundaries June 2025

From the Further Maths Adv rows of AQA's A-level grade boundaries for June 2025 (version 1.0, published 14 August 2025). Each figure is the lowest total out of 300 that earns the grade. AQA Further Maths (7367) has three papers. Papers 1 and 2 cover the compulsory content and are 100 marks each, and Paper 3 is one paper with two 50 mark booklets taken from Discrete, Mechanics and Statistics, so the pair you study decides which row of the table applies to you.

The three rows are close. At A the pairs sit within 5 marks of each other (199 to 204), and at A* within 6. Our guides to A-level Further Maths and AQA A-level Further Maths cover the content, and the formula booklet guide lists what you are given.

Reading your row

Take a candidate on the DS pair who scores 76 on Paper 1, 71 on Paper 2 and 58 across the two Paper 3 booklets. That is 205 out of 300. The DS A boundary is 204, so it is an A. On the SM row, where A needed 199, the same 205 is also an A, but a total of 200 would be an A on SM and a B on DS.

The pair matters most at the extremes. For an E, the MD row needed 76, the highest, against 66 for SM, a difference of 10 marks.

2025 against 2024 and 2023

From AQA's 2024 and 2023 documents. The DS pair:

The MD pair:

The SM pair:

All three pairs rose over the three summers. At A*, DS went from 225 to 243, MD from 213 to 237 and SM from 216 to 241, the biggest rise at 25 marks. Most of that rise came between 2023 and 2024. In 2025 each pair rose by 3 or 4 marks at A*.

AQA's Paper 3 booklet figures

AQA's document also gives notional boundaries for each Paper 3 booklet, out of 50, "for illustrative purposes only":

The Discrete booklet had the highest notional A* in 2025, 43 out of 50, against 39 for Mechanics. Those are not the grade boundaries you are held to. Your grade comes from the 300 total.

What the boundaries say about Further Maths

• An A* is about 81%. That is 243 on DS, with 57 marks to lose across three papers.
• An E needs about 23%. 69 marks on DS.
• Papers 1 and 2 carry two thirds of the marks. Strength on compulsory content matters more than the choice of pair.

Use today's paper to estimate your grade

Sit today's Further Maths paper, a short timed paper of 8 questions worth 25 to 35 marks, written by us and not by AQA. It mixes pure topics such as complex numbers and matrices. Mark it, divide by the total, and compare with the shares: 20 out of 28 is 71%, above the A share of 66% to 68% and below the A* share of 79% to 81%. See the A-level Maths mocks guide for how to sit a short mock.

Mistakes to avoid

• Using the wrong pair. Check which two applications you sat.
• Looking at the booklet boundaries. They are notional.
• Using the A-level Maths table. Further Maths is a separate qualification.

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UK · A-levelAQA A-level Further Maths grade boundaries 2026AQA's official June 2026 A-level Further Maths (7367) grade boundaries for the DS, MD and SM option pairs, out of 300, with changes since 2025.