A Level Geography Grade Boundaries
This article has been updated to include the 2024 A Level Geography Grade Boundaries for AQA, Edexcel and OCR.
Are you looking for the A Level Geography Grade Boundaries and want to analyse how the results have changed over the years?
This page helps you identify what marks you need to achieve your target grades based on the trends from previous years. Focusing on specific areas of the course to master by analysing data on the difficulty of papers across the countries means you can better target your revision. You can also see if there is an overall change in the A Level Geography grade boundaries.
Student Attainment
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With this data, we can see a sharp presence of ‘grade inflation’ during the 2022 Summer exams. These exams saw students provided with advanced information about the content that was going to be examined. In the years since, the exam boards have returned the A Level geography grade boundaries to ‘pre-COVID’ levels, and they are broadly in line with expectations. Just over half of the students in the latest series achieved a grade B or higher, with roughly one in four achieving a grade A. The grades are stabilising since the 2020-22 exams.
The OCR exam board has seen the highest student achievement, with 57% of students achieving a grade B or above, compared to 53% for AQA and Edexcel students. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues for the 2025 exam series when those A Level Geography grade boundaries are released.
2024 A Level Geography Grade Boundaries
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In the above data sets, the exam board label is the overall grade boundary for that set of exams, and the papers indicate the grade boundaries for each individual paper. The number in black is the number of raw marks needed to achieve that grade, and the number in red is the percentage.
AQA: The 2024 grade boundaries show a very high standard for the non-examined assessment, with over 80% required to achieve a grade A. This means that students should pay close attention to the mark scheme of the NEA to ensure they are hitting all aspects required of the exam board. It also appears that the Human Geography Paper 2 has higher grade boundaries for the top-end grades, but Physical Geography Paper 1 is slightly higher for the lower-end grades. This shows a need to spread effort across papers, but for higher-achieving students, Paper 2 appears to be less challenging than Paper 1.
Edexcel: In 2024, it appeared that top-achieving students found the papers easier as they went along, with Paper 4 having the highest boundaries and Paper 1 having the lowest boundaries, over 15% lower. At the lower grades, this pattern continues but to a smaller extent. This suggests that students feel more comfortable with the exams as they sit them, showing they need to prepare as much as possible for the earlier papers in order to achieve higher marks at lower boundaries.
OCR: The high quality of NEA is retained here, with 90% required to achieve a grade A*, and 50% achieving a grade D. This shows the importance of students checking through the NEA mark scheme and requirements in order to maximise the number of marks achieved in this aspect of the course. Of the examined papers, the boundaries are fairly evenly split across the three papers, showing a need to maintain high standards across the three assessment opportunities.
About A Level Geography Grade Boundaries
It’s important to remember that A Level Geography grade boundaries fluctuate every year, and there is no defined percentage for each grade. As we are now past pandemic-level boundaries, they are likely to rise slightly against 2024 levels this year, and the A Level Geography grade boundaries should generally remain at a similar place. Where there are more tough papers, grade boundaries may be lowered, and they may be raised where a cohort finds a particular paper easier.
Useful Links
AQA Grade Boundaries Archive
Edexcel Grade Boundaries Archive
OCR Grade Boundaries Archive
A Level Geography Past Papers
A Level Geography Revision Tools
