Grade boundaries
SQA Higher Physics C857 76 grade boundaries
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Level
Board
Course
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Whole subject
Type a mark to see its grade.
The boundaries
2025 · whole subject
| Grade | Needs |
|---|---|
| A | 100 of 150 |
| B | 84 of 150 |
| C | 69 of 150 |
| D | 53 of 150 |
Every course·Mock grade calculator
Marks for each grade in 2025
In total
- 100 out of 150 on SQA C857 76 in total was a grade A in 2025.
- 84 out of 150 on SQA C857 76 in total was a grade B in 2025.
- 69 out of 150 on SQA C857 76 in total was a grade C in 2025.
- 53 out of 150 on SQA C857 76 in total was a grade D in 2025.
Every series
2 series, newest first. Each mark is the least that reaches the grade, out of the total under the column’s name.
2025
From SQA’s grade boundaries for 2025: the board’s document.
| Grade | Whole subjectout of 150 |
|---|---|
| A | 100 |
| B | 84 |
| C | 69 |
| D | 53 |
2024
From SQA’s grade boundaries for 2024: the board’s document.
| Grade | Whole subjectout of 150 |
|---|---|
| A | 105 |
| B | 89 |
| C | 73 |
| D | 57 |
Questions
What mark do you need for a grade A in SQA Higher Physics C857 76?
In 2025, the least mark for the whole subject that reached a grade A was 100 out of 150 in total.
What mark do you need for a grade C in SQA Higher Physics C857 76?
In 2025, the least mark for the whole subject that reached a grade C was 69 out of 150 in total.
Which series of SQA Higher Physics C857 76 grade boundaries are there?
2 series, from 2024 to 2025: 2025 and 2024.
Do SQA Higher Physics C857 76 grade boundaries change each year?
Yes. Across the 2 series here, a grade A in total needed from 100 out of 150 (2025) to 105 out of 150 (2024).
Other courses
Other SQA Scottish (SQA) courses
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- National 5 German C834 75
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- National 5 Italian C842 75
- Advanced Higher Latin C843 77
- Higher Latin C843 76
- National 5 Latin C843 75
- Advanced Higher Mathematics C847 77
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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.