CCEA GCSE Maths grade boundaries 2026: raw marks for every unit

CCEA GCSE Maths grade boundaries 2026

The tables copy CCEA's Raw to Uniform Mark Boundaries for GCSE Mathematics (G9602), Summer 2026, loaded on 20 August 2026. CCEA Maths is unitised. You sit one modular test (M1 to M4) and one completion test (M5 to M8), each marked out of 100 raw marks, and the unit tables below give the raw mark needed for each unit grade. A dash means the unit does not award that grade.

Modular tests, raw marks needed

Completion tests, raw marks needed

The subject grade lines, Summer 2026

Which route can reach which grade?

The tier you enter decides your ceiling, and the figures show it. Adding the largest uniform mark of each unit in a route gives the most that route can earn:

So the Foundation routes top out at a D (M1 and M5) or a C* (M2 and M6), and the Higher route M3 and M7 stops one mark short of an A. Only M4 and M8 reach an A or an A*. If you are aiming for a B or above, you need to be on one of the Higher routes, and the A and A* only open on M4 and M8.

A worked example: Higher route, M4 and M8

Suppose a student on the M4 and M8 route earns exactly 45 raw marks in M4 and 49 in M8, the grade a boundary in each. CCEA's tables convert those to 144 and 176 uniform marks. The total is 320 out of 400, which is the A line. One more raw mark in either unit pushes the total above 320, so the grade stays an A. The A* needs 393, which takes both units well above their a boundaries.

A Foundation example on M2 and M6: 54 raw marks in M2 and 54 in M6 earn 108 and 132 uniform marks. The total, 240, is a C.

How 2026 compares with 2025

M4 is the steady one. Its five raw boundaries, from a at 45 down to d at 17, are identical to 2025. The completion tests moved most. M8 grade a rose nine marks, from 40 to 49, and M7 grade b rose six, to 65. The Foundation completion test M5 went the other way: grade g fell from 14 to 7. Raw boundaries are set after the papers are marked, so these shifts tell you the papers differed in difficulty, not that the standard changed.

The subject lines hardly moved. The A* was 394 in 2025 and 393 in 2026, and the A to G lines stayed the same.

Using the boundaries with your own marks

• Find your route first, then the row for your unit grade. A mark of 40 in M7 is a grade d in 2026 and below it.
• A completion test combines two papers, one without a calculator and one with, into a single total out of 100. Use the combined mark.
• You may resit a unit once before cash-in. The better result counts, unless that unit is needed for the rule that 40% of the assessment is taken at the end of the course, in which case the later mark counts.
• Practise with the formula sheet beside you.

Today's paper as a short mock

Try today's Foundation or Higher paper. It has 8 questions worth 25 to 35 marks, written by us and not by CCEA. Turn your mark into a percentage. In raw terms, a grade c needs about 54% in M2 and 21% in M4 in 2026 (54 and 21 out of 100). That gap is the tier effect, so choose the paper that matches your route. For the course itself, see our CCEA GCSE Maths guide.

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