CCEA A-level Further Maths grade boundaries 2026: raw marks by unit

CCEA A-level Further Maths grade boundaries 2026

The tables copy CCEA's Raw to Uniform Mark Boundaries for GCE Further Mathematics (A2332), Summer 2026, dated 13 August 2026. Further Maths assumes you know AS 1 of GCE Mathematics and has four units: AS 1 Pure and AS 2 Applied, each a 1 hour 30 written paper of 100 marks (20% of the A-level each), and A2 1 Pure and A2 2 Applied, each a 2 hour 15 paper of 150 marks (30% each).

Uniform marks at each boundary

Subject lines for AS and A-level

How low the A2 Pure boundaries go

Look at the A2 1 Pure column. A grade a took 107 out of 150, which is 71%. A grade e took 15 out of 150, only 10%, and it earned 48 uniform marks. A2 1 kept the same five boundaries (110, 86, 62, 38 and 15) in 2024 and 2025, and in 2026 they were 107, 84, 61, 38 and 15. The AS 1 column is different: grade e needed 28 out of 100.

The A* and a worked example

An A* needs a grade A overall (320 of 400) and 216 of the 240 A2 uniform marks. If a candidate lands on the grade a raw boundary in all four units, the raw marks are 73, 59, 107, 106, giving 64 + 64 + 96 + 96 = 320 uniform marks. That is exactly an A. The A2 part is 192 of 240, which is 24 short of the A* threshold. To close that gap, a candidate needs higher uniform marks in the two A2 papers, for example 108 in A2 1 and 108 in A2 2, which adds up to 216.

How 2026 compares with 2025

AS 2 Applied dropped nine marks at grade a (68 to 59) and at grade c (48 to 39), the largest fall of any unit. AS 1 Pure fell five, from 78 to 73. A2 2 Applied fell seven at grade a, from 113 to 106, though its grade e stayed at 21. A2 1 Pure, the most stable unit, went from 110 to 107. Every unit's grade a boundary was lower than in 2025, so every unit asked for fewer raw marks for the same uniform mark.

Notes for Further Maths candidates

• Further Maths is taken alongside A-level Maths, so most candidates have two sets of unit results to track.
• The CCEA Further Maths formula booklet lists what you are given. Learn what is not on it.
• AS 1 and AS 2 can be cashed in as an AS Further Maths on their own, using the 160 mark AS table.

Try today's Further Maths paper as a timed check. It is 8 questions worth 25 to 35 marks, written by us and not by CCEA, so it will point to weak topics but not to a grade. See also our A-level Further Maths guide.

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