Eduqas GCSE grade boundaries 2025: the marks for every grade

Eduqas GCSE grade boundaries June 2025

The numbers come from Eduqas GCSE Grade Points, June 2025, which Eduqas last updated on 20 August 2025, the day before GCSE results day on 21 August. A boundary is the lowest total mark that earns the grade. Eduqas GCSEs are linear, so you take every component in one series and your total decides the grade.

Grades 9 to 3

Grades 5 to 1

Maths has two tiers: the Higher row is in the first table and the Foundation row in the second. Our own guides break down the two subjects we cover: Eduqas GCSE Maths boundaries 2025 and Eduqas GCSE Computer Science boundaries 2025.

Eduqas GCSE science boundaries do not exist

If you came looking for Eduqas GCSE Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Combined Science, there is nothing to find. Eduqas's GCSE list has no science qualifications beyond Entry Level, and the June 2025 file has no science rows. Students in England who sit GCSE sciences take them with another board: see our GCSE Physics, GCSE Chemistry, GCSE Biology and GCSE Combined Science guides.

Foundation and Higher tier in Eduqas Maths

Eduqas's Maths specification says a Higher tier student is awarded a grade from 4 to 9, or a grade 3 if the mark falls a small number of marks below the 3/4 boundary. A Foundation student can reach grades 1 to 5. That is why the table has a 3 for the Higher tier and why a Foundation grade 5 and a Higher grade 5 sit so far apart: 141 out of 240 on Foundation, but only 56 on Higher.

The gap is not a sign that Higher is easy to pass. A Higher grade 4 at 27 marks is 11% of the total, because the Higher papers are harder and the boundaries are set against those papers. The Foundation grade 4 at 111 marks is 46%.

Turning marks into a grade: two examples

• Maths Higher. Imagine 52 on the non-calculator paper and 61 on the calculator paper. The total of 113 is above 85 (grade 6) and below 115 (grade 7), so it is a grade 6, 2 marks short of a 7.
• Computer Science. A total of 98 out of 200 is above 95 (grade 5) and below 115 (grade 6), so it is a grade 5.

A mark that equals a boundary earns that grade. In Maths Higher, 27 marks is a grade 4 and 26 is a grade 3.

How 2025 compares with 2024

The June 2024 file gives the earlier figures. These grades show how the two years differ:

The Foundation boundaries rose, with grade 4 up 7 marks and grade 5 up 9. On the Higher tier, grade 4 slipped from 30 to 27. Computer Science stayed within a few marks at every grade.

Component boundaries are only a guide

Below each subject the file lists notional boundaries for every paper. Eduqas describes them as a guide to help centres analyse results, not official grades, and warns that they may not sum to the overall boundary where marks are scaled. In Computer Science the second component is scaled by 1.25, which is exactly that case.

Estimate your grade from today's paper

Maths Foundation, Maths Higher and Computer Science each have a new paper every day on our practice papers. It is a short timed paper of 8 questions and 25 to 35 marks, and Eduqas did not write it. Mark it, divide your mark by the paper's total, and compare the share with the grade shares in the table. A run of results is a better guide than one paper. See predicted grades and what a grade 4 means.

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