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UK exams, explained properly
Grade boundaries, exam board differences and examiner expectations — written for GCSE and A-Level students sitting real UK papers.
Grading
How grade boundaries actually work (and why they change every year)
Grade boundaries are set after every exam series, not before. Here is how UK exam boards decide them, and what that means for your revision targets.
14 July 20266 min readRead
Exam boards
AQA vs Edexcel vs OCR: what's actually different in GCSE Combined Science
Same science, three specifications. Here is what genuinely differs between AQA, Edexcel and OCR at GCSE Combined Science — and what it changes about revision.
21 July 20267 min readRead
Exam technique
What examiners actually look for: common mistakes by command word
State, describe, explain, evaluate — each command word has a different mark scheme shape. Here are the mistakes examiner reports flag year after year.
28 July 20266 min readRead