CCEA GCSE Maths grade boundaries 2025: raw marks for every unit
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CCEA GCSE Maths grade boundaries 2025, unit by unit
These figures are from CCEA's GCSE Mathematics Raw to Uniform Mark Boundaries for Summer 2025. CCEA's grade boundaries page now lists only the 2026 all-subject table, so this page keeps the 2025 unit tables on record. Maths has four modular tests and four completion tests. A student sits one of each, and every unit is marked out of 100 raw marks. The A to G uniform lines do not change in the life of the specification; the raw boundaries do.
Modular tests M1 to M4, Summer 2025
| Unit grade | M1 (Foundation) | M2 (Foundation) | M3 (Higher) | M4 (Higher) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Out of | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| a | - | - | - | 45 |
| b | - | - | 55 | 37 |
| c* | - | 68 | 45 | 29 |
| c | - | 52 | 35 | 21 |
| d | 46 | 39 | 25 | 17 |
| e | 35 | 26 | 15 | - |
| f | 25 | 14 | - | - |
| g | 15 | 2 | - | - |
Completion tests M5 to M8, Summer 2025
| Unit grade | M5 (Foundation) | M6 (Foundation) | M7 (Higher) | M8 (Higher) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Out of | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| a | - | - | - | 40 |
| b | - | - | 59 | 31 |
| c* | - | 61 | 50 | 23 |
| c | - | 50 | 42 | 15 |
| d | 54 | 41 | 34 | 11 |
| e | 40 | 32 | 26 | - |
| f | 27 | 24 | - | - |
| g | 14 | 16 | - | - |
Uniform marks that go with each boundary
Raw to uniform conversion is fixed, so this table is the same every year. It is what makes the unit boundaries add up to the subject lines.
| Unit grade | M1 (Foundation) | M2 (Foundation) | M3 (Higher) | M4 (Higher) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most you can earn | 107 | 131 | 143 | 180 |
| a | - | - | - | 144 |
| b | - | - | 132 | 132 |
| c* | - | 121 | 121 | 121 |
| c | - | 108 | 108 | 108 |
| d | 90 | 90 | 90 | 99 |
| e | 72 | 72 | 72 | - |
| f | 54 | 54 | - | - |
| g | 36 | 36 | - | - |
| Unit grade | M5 (Foundation) | M6 (Foundation) | M7 (Higher) | M8 (Higher) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most you can earn | 131 | 160 | 175 | 220 |
| a | - | - | - | 176 |
| b | - | - | 161 | 161 |
| c* | - | 148 | 148 | 148 |
| c | - | 132 | 132 | 132 |
| d | 110 | 110 | 110 | 121 |
| e | 88 | 88 | 88 | - |
| f | 66 | 66 | - | - |
| g | 44 | 44 | - | - |
The subject lines, Summer 2025
| Subject grade | Lowest total uniform mark, out of 400 |
|---|---|
| A* | 394 |
| A | 320 |
| B | 292 |
| C* | 268 |
| C | 240 |
| D | 200 |
| E | 160 |
| F | 120 |
| G | 80 |
Reading the route ceilings
A Foundation student on M1 and M5 can earn at most 238 uniform marks, which is a D. M2 and M6 give at most 291, a C*. M3 and M7 give 318, a B. Only M4 and M8 add to 400. If a school puts a student on a lower route, it limits the grade before the paper is sat, so ask which pair of units you have been entered for.
A worked example from 2025
Take the Higher route M3 and M7. A student scoring exactly 55 in M3 and 59 in M7, the grade b boundaries, earns 132 and 161 uniform marks. These total 293, one more than the B line of 292. On M4 and M8, 29 and 23 raw marks at grade c* give 121 and 148, a total of 269, a C*. Notice how few raw marks the M4 grade c* needs, 29 out of 100: a harder paper has a lower raw boundary.
How 2025 compares with 2024
| Unit and grade | Summer 2024 | Summer 2025 | Change in last year |
|---|---|---|---|
| M1, grade d | 53 | 46 | −7 |
| M1, grade g | 25 | 15 | −10 |
| M4, grade a | 48 | 45 | −3 |
| M5, grade d | 56 | 54 | −2 |
| M7, grade b | 53 | 59 | +6 |
| M8, grade a | 43 | 40 | −3 |
The Foundation units fell most. M1 grade g dropped ten marks, from 25 to 15, and grade d dropped seven, from 53 to 46. Those units needed far fewer raw marks than in 2024 for the same uniform mark. The Higher completion test M7 went up: grade b rose six marks, from 53 to 59. The top line, the A* at 394, was the same as 2024.
What to take from it
- Do not read a lower raw boundary as an easier grade. The uniform mark is the same.
- The best practice is the unit you sit. The M5 to M8 completion tests combine a non-calculator paper and a calculator paper into one mark out of 100.
- You may resit a unit once before cash-in, so a weak first modular test is not final.
For a timed check, try today's Foundation or Higher paper. It is 8 questions and 25 to 35 marks, written by us, not CCEA. It will show topics to revisit, not a grade. The course guide is CCEA GCSE Maths.
Common questions
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