Grade boundaries present the minimal variety of marks you want for every grade.
They are determined by examiners and revealed on outcomes day.
Qualifications Wales, which oversees Welsh exams, had been ready to make use of statistics to set the grade boundaries to forestall marks dropping considerably beneath 2019 ranges, exterior, due to a priority that efficiency in some topics had nonetheless not recovered totally because the pandemic. This back-up plan has not been wanted.
In England and Northern Ireland, the way in which boundaries are determined has returned to regular.
Only one change remained in place this 12 months.
The Department for Education in England mentioned college students in maths, physics, and combined-science exams had been allowed to make use of formulae and equation sheets for the ultimate time, exterior. This is not going to be allowed in 2025.