GCSE History AQA Grade Boundaries

Grade boundaries are the minimum raw marks you need for each grade in AQA GCSE History (specification 8145). AQA sets them once marking is complete for the whole cohort, based on how the papers scored and how past cohorts performed.

AQA GCSE History gives you a wide choice of topic combinations across the papers. Every combination that candidates entered for gets its own row of boundaries, because the papers have slightly different difficulty profiles. Check your statement of entry for your option code, then find the matching row for the year you sat.

AQA publishes GCSE grade boundaries at 8am on GCSE results day, alongside the grades themselves. They land as one large PDF covering every GCSE subject that series. We update this page shortly after AQA releases the boundaries.

Sit past papers timed, mark against the official mark scheme, and compare your total to the boundary for the option code you sat. If you're consistently short of your target, use a Cognito History past-papers library to work through more practice questions.

Yes. We host AQA GCSE History past papers by year on our past-papers library. Filter by your option code and sit the papers timed. Score against the official mark scheme, then check your total on this page against the boundary for your option.