Grade boundaries

SQA Advanced Higher Modern Studies C849 77 grade boundaries

The newest summer series is shown first. Type a mark to see its grade, or choose another tier, series or paper.

Level

Board

Course

Boundaries

Whole subject

Type a mark to see its grade.

The boundaries

2026 · whole subject

GradeNeeds
A98 of 140
B84 of 140
C70 of 140
D56 of 140

Every course·Mock grade calculator

Marks for each grade in 2026

In total

  • 98 out of 140 on SQA C849 77 in total was a grade A in 2026.
  • 84 out of 140 on SQA C849 77 in total was a grade B in 2026.
  • 70 out of 140 on SQA C849 77 in total was a grade C in 2026.
  • 56 out of 140 on SQA C849 77 in total was a grade D in 2026.

Every paper in 2026

Every series

3 series, newest first. Each mark is the least that reaches the grade, out of the total under the column’s name.

2026

From SQA’s grade boundaries for 2026: the board’s document.

GradeWhole subjectout of 140
A98
B84
C70
D56

2025

From SQA’s grade boundaries for 2025: the board’s document.

GradeWhole subjectout of 140
A98
B84
C70
D56

2024

From SQA’s grade boundaries for 2024: the board’s document.

GradeWhole subjectout of 140
A97
B83
C69
D55

Questions

What mark do you need for a grade A in SQA Advanced Higher Modern Studies C849 77?

In 2026, the least mark for the whole subject that reached a grade A was 98 out of 140 in total.

What mark do you need for a grade C in SQA Advanced Higher Modern Studies C849 77?

In 2026, the least mark for the whole subject that reached a grade C was 70 out of 140 in total.

Which series of SQA Advanced Higher Modern Studies C849 77 grade boundaries are there?

3 series, from 2024 to 2026: 2026, 2025 and 2024.

Do SQA Advanced Higher Modern Studies C849 77 grade boundaries change each year?

Yes. Across the 3 series here, a grade A in total needed from 97 out of 140 (2024) to 98 out of 140 (2026).

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A series, or the safe rule

A paper is graded against the boundaries of the series it was sat in. Choose that series and the grade is the one the board’s boundaries gave that sitting. Where a series published more than one set of boundaries for the whole subject, one for each combination of papers, each grade takes the highest of them, and the line under the grade says so.

The safe rule is for a mark with no series of its own, such as a mock. For each grade it takes the highest boundary in the board’s most recent summer series, up to three of them and leaving out 2020 to 2022, or the course’s main series where it has no summer one. A grade it gives would have been enough in each of them. The line under the grade names the series it counted.

In the app you log a paper in one line, or question by question where asterisk has its questions, and each grade comes from these same boundaries. Open the app.

Not here

CCEA, AS level, IB and AP: the app holds no grade boundaries for them, so they are not offered.

Where these numbers come from

Boards publish their grade boundaries after each series, and that is all this page holds: each grade’s boundary mark and what the subject or paper is out of, as the board printed them. The papers stay on the boards’ own sites; nothing here reproduces a question or a mark scheme.