June 2026 boundaries are not published yet. In June 2025, a grade 4-4 in AQA GCSE Combined Science: Trilogy (Higher tier) needed 96 out of 420 raw marks — 23%. A 9-9 needed 299 (71%).
June 2026 is not out yet. NOT PUBLISHED YET. GCSE results day 2026 is Thursday 20 August 2026; boundaries release at 08:00 that morning. AQA's June 2026 file list covers A-level, AS, L3 Cert Maths Studies, Applied General and EPQ only. When published this will use paired grade keys (9-9, 9-8 ... 4-3). max_mark is the specification total, not a 2026 observation. Everything below is the most recent series the board has actually published — no figure on this page is a prediction.
| Grade | Raw marks | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 9-9 | 299 | 71% |
| 9-8 | 281 | 67% |
| 8-8 | 263 | 63% |
| 8-7 | 245 | 58% |
| 7-7 | 228 | 54% |
| 7-6 | 206 | 49% |
| 6-6 | 184 | 44% |
| 6-5 | 162 | 39% |
| 5-5 | 140 | 33% |
| 5-4 | 118 | 28% |
| 4-4 | 96 | 23% |
| 4-3 | 85 | 20% |
| Gap | Width |
|---|---|
| 9-9 → 9-8 | 18 marks |
| 9-8 → 8-8 | 18 marks |
| 8-8 → 8-7 | 18 marks |
| 8-7 → 7-7 | 17 marks |
| 7-7 → 7-6 | 22 marks |
| 7-6 → 6-6 | 22 marks |
| 6-6 → 6-5 | 22 marks |
| 6-5 → 5-5 | 22 marks |
| 5-5 → 5-4 | 22 marks |
| 5-4 → 4-4 | 22 marks |
| 4-4 → 4-3 | 11 marks |
The gap table is the revision-planning number: it's how many extra marks each grade actually costs. A gap this size is usually one exam question done properly, not a different student.
299 out of 420 in June 2025 — 71% of the raw marks.
23% in June 2025: 96 raw marks out of 420. The percentage moves each year with the paper's difficulty — the grade is fixed, the marks aren't.
Boundaries are set after marking so that a grade represents the same standard despite papers varying in difficulty. A harder paper gets lower boundaries; an easier one gets higher. Predicting next year's boundary from this year's is guessing the difficulty of an unwritten paper.
Read 18 August 2026 from the official AQA grade boundaries document: source PDF. Boundaries are set per series and never apply to next year's papers.
Boundaries read 19 August 2026 from the official board documents, linked on every page. Boundaries are set per exam series; nothing here predicts a future paper.