Eduqas A-level Physics grade boundaries 2025: A* to E, paper by paper

Eduqas A-level Physics grade boundaries June 2025

Physics is out of 320 marks across three components, and these figures are copied from Eduqas GCE A Level Grade Points, June 2025, which Eduqas last updated on 13 August 2025. Each is the lowest total mark that earns the grade.

The board-wide table, with every Eduqas A-level subject, is at Eduqas A-level grade boundaries 2025.

The three papers behind the 320

According to Eduqas's Physics specification, Component 1, Newtonian Physics, is a written paper of 2 hours 15 minutes and 100 marks, worth 31.25% of the A-level. Component 2, Electricity and the Universe, is 2 hours, 100 marks and 31.25%. Component 3, Light, Nuclei and Options, is 2 hours 15 minutes, 120 marks and 37.5%. A practical endorsement is reported separately and does not count towards the grade. Our Eduqas A-level Physics guide covers the content.

Eduqas also lists a boundary for each paper, which it calls notional and for centres to analyse results. The grade comes from the total.

A worked example: one total, one grade

Suppose a student scores 52 on Component 1, 48 on Component 2 and 60 on Component 3. The total is 160 out of 320. Reading down the table, 160 is above 158 (C) and below 196 (B), so it earns a C, 36 marks short of a B and only 2 marks above the C boundary. Component 3 is the largest single paper, so knowing the data booklet pays off there.

2025 against 2024

Eduqas's June 2024 file gives the earlier marks. The change column is 2025 minus 2024.

The lower the grade, the bigger the rise: A* up 4, but D up 11 and E up 11. Most of it came from Component 1, whose boundaries went up by 6 marks at A* to C and by 8 at E, while Components 2 and 3 barely moved. A harder first paper would have pushed it the other way, so Newtonian Physics looks to have been the more scorable paper in 2025.

What to take from it

• Share of the total. An A needed 73% and a C needed 49% in 2025.
• The D and E boundaries rose most. A student aiming only to pass needed 11 more marks than in 2024.
• Newtonian Physics counts. It is a third of the qualification and was the paper that moved the grades.

Try today's paper

A-level Physics: Year 1 and Year 2 each have a new 8-question paper every day on our practice papers, worth 25 to 35 marks. Eduqas did not write them. Mark yours, turn the result into a percentage and see which grade share it reaches in the table.

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