GCSE Physical Education Marks Per Grade 2025

Results day can turn one number into a dozen questions. Is the mark raw or scaled? Does coursework count? Was it enough for the next grade? The quickest answer is that GCSE physical education marks per grade depend on your exam board and exam series. For the latest completed summer series, June $2025$, a grade $4$ required $142$ marks with AQA, $189$ with Edexcel, $106$ with OCR and $110$ with Eduqas Full Course.

Those figures cannot be compared directly because each qualification has a different maximum mark. Use the table below only after checking your board, course and year.

GCSE Physical Education grade thresholds at a glance

Before reading a boundary, check:

• your exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR or Eduqas;
• the exam series shown on your results information;
• whether you took the full or short course;
• the qualification's maximum mark;
• whether a component mark has been scaled.

A grade boundary is the minimum total mark needed for that grade. Earning one mark below a grade $7$ boundary produces a grade $6$, not a rounded-up grade $7$.

GCSE Physical Education marks per grade in 2025

These are the published June $2025$ overall qualification thresholds for the main GCSE Physical Education courses graded $9$ to $1$.

You can inspect earlier years through MathsGenie's GCSE grade boundaries hub. The subject pages provide complete tables for AQA GCSE Physical Education, Edexcel GCSE Physical Education and Eduqas GCSE Physical Education. OCR figures are available through the OCR GCSE grade boundaries page.

A student checks the board and year before interpreting a moving grade boundary

What GCSE Physical Education raw marks mean

A raw mark is the mark awarded for assessed work before any required scaling. Your final grade is based on the overall qualification total after the exam board has applied its assessment rules.

This distinction matters particularly for AQA. Its two written papers are each worth $78$ marks. The non-exam assessment has $100$ available raw marks but is scaled to $104$, producing a qualification total of:

$$78+78+104=260$$

The boundary table therefore uses the final scaled total out of $260$. If you know your component results, the AQA Physical Education predicted grade calculator can help you interpret them.

Component boundaries are often described as notional. They indicate roughly how performance on one component compares with a grade, but they do not award separate component grades. The overall total determines the qualification grade.

A student discovers that exam boards use differently sized scoreboards

Why grade boundaries change

GCSE Physical Education grade thresholds are set for each exam series after assessments have been completed and marked. They can move because the difficulty of papers and the evidence of student performance vary.

For example, Edexcel's grade $9$ boundary was $278$ out of $350$ in June $2024$, then $296$ in June $2025$. That does not mean one cohort was automatically better. Boundaries are intended to maintain a comparable standard when assessment demand changes.

This is why a previous boundary is useful for setting a revision target but cannot predict an exact future grade. Build in a margin rather than aiming for the historical minimum.

Common mistakes when checking PE boundaries

Comparing marks from different boards

AQA's total is out of $260$, while Edexcel's is out of $350$. The larger raw number does not necessarily represent stronger performance.

Using the wrong year

Always match the boundary to your exam series. June $2024$ figures cannot determine a June $2025$ result.

Treating component thresholds as final grades

A notional grade $7$ on one paper does not guarantee an overall grade $7$. Written papers, practical performance and other assessed components combine to produce the final total.

Forgetting the course type

Eduqas Full Course and Short Course have different totals and boundaries. WJEC qualifications may also use an $A^{\ast }$ to $G$ grading structure rather than grades $9$ to $1$, so check the exact specification shown by your school.

Turn the result into a useful next step

A boundary explains the result; it does not define what happens next. If you are also preparing for GCSE maths, use MathsGenie's free GCSE maths revision hub to turn marks into a practical plan. Revision lessons and practice questions repair individual gaps, while past papers, mark schemes, video solutions and mini tests reveal whether those gaps have actually closed.

Near the exam, add GCSE predicted papers and use the revision planner to keep the work manageable. For your PE result, start with the Maths Genie GCSE Physical Education grade boundaries pages above, select the correct board and year, and compare your official total with the exact threshold.