WJEC A-level Physics grade boundaries 2025: what each unit needed
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WJEC A-level Physics grade boundaries June 2025
WJEC does not publish one raw table for the whole qualification. Each of the five units has its own raw boundaries, and the unit weights are 100, 100, 125, 125 and 50 uniform marks. The grade for each unit is a lower-case letter a to e, and the uniform marks beneath it are fixed in WJEC's overall UMS document.
| Unit | A | B | C | D | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics AS Unit 1 | 80 | 70 | 60 | 50 | 40 |
| Physics AS Unit 2 | 80 | 70 | 60 | 50 | 40 |
| Physics A2 Unit 3 | 100 | 88 | 75 | 63 | 50 |
| Physics A2 Unit 4 | 100 | 88 | 75 | 63 | 50 |
| Physics A2 Unit 5 | 40 | 35 | 30 | 25 | 20 |
Raw marks per unit in 2025
Below are the 2025 figures from the grade converter. The last column compares the A boundary with 2026.
| Unit | A, 2025 | B | C | D | E | A, change on 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS Unit 1 | 55 | 46 | 38 | 30 | 22 | −1 |
| AS Unit 2 | 49 | 40 | 32 | 24 | 16 | 0 |
| A2 Unit 3 | 74 | 64 | 55 | 46 | 37 | +11 |
| A2 Unit 4 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 28 | +8 |
| A2 Unit 5 | 41 | 36 | 32 | 28 | 24 | +1 |
Totting up a total
A candidate with raw marks of 52, 45, 70, 64 and 38 in Units 1 to 5 converts to 77, 76, 95, 92, 37 uniform marks. The total is 377. It clears the B line at 350 and misses A at 400 by 23. With 224 on the A2 units, the A* test of 270 would also have been out of reach.
The A* test
An A* is not a unit grade. WJEC awards it when the overall total reaches an A (400) and the A2 units, Units 3 to 5, add up to at least 270 of their 300 uniform marks. A candidate can therefore be an A on 405 uniform marks and still miss an A* by a few marks in the second year.
Senedd Research reports 10.5% of Welsh A level entries at A* in 2025, 29.5% at A* or A and 97.5% at A* to E, using provisional JCQ data.
Two units show how WJEC's conversion works. In Unit 3 an A at 74 raw marks is worth 100 uniform marks and an E at 37 is worth 50, so each raw mark in that range is worth a little under 1.4 uniform marks. The conversion is a straight line between boundaries, which is why a candidate one raw mark short of an A still gets a uniform mark close to 100.
Reading the 2025 table
- A2 raw marks sit higher. The A2 Unit 3 boundary of 74 was the highest A boundary in Physics.
- Unit 5 has the narrowest range. An A needed 41 raw marks and an E 24.
- Gaps between grades are a few marks. In Unit 2, A to E spans 33 raw marks.
Check yourself with a daily paper
Our A-level Physics Year 1 and Year 2 papers are short, 8 questions of 25 to 35 marks, and they are ours, not WJEC's. Compare your share with the UMS shares: 80% for an A, 70% for a B and so on. It is a pointer only.
Common questions
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UK · A-levelWJEC A-level Physics grade boundaries 2026WJEC A-level Physics 2026 boundaries: the raw marks for each of the five units against the fixed UMS scale, the A* rule and the change from 2025.