Understanding marks and grades | Pearson qualifications
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Understanding marks and grades

Get an overview of how we mark assessments and consistently award grades that fairly reflect a learner's performance.

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To ensure that our qualifications continue to receive recognition from employers and education providers, we have to demonstrate that learners of the same ability are awarded the same grade, regardless of when they completed their course. The information below explains how we do this.

Setting grade boundaries to fairly reflect performance

We set new grade boundaries each time a new exam or assessment is completed. They indicate the minimum number of marks students need to achieve to get a particular grade.

What evidence do the awarding committee review?

Our experts need to balance a range of evidence when deciding where the grade boundaries should fall. This ensures that students receive a fair and consistent grade regardless of which awarding organisation they take their qualification with or when they complete their course.

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