GCSE grades previously ranged from an A* to a G - but a new numerical system of grading was introduced in 2017
Slightly confusingly, schools are also held to account for the proportion of pupils that gain a “strong” pass or above which is a grade 5.
While grading is no harsher than under the previous system, the GCSE curriculum is now designed to have more content and some of the questions in exam papers are intended to be harder, to identify students on course to gain a grade 9. A 9 grade isn’t exactly the same as an old money A*: essentially it’s better, as an 8 is also roughly equivalent to the lower half of the A* band and a higher A.
Under the numerical system relatively few students should be achieving grade 9s in normal years, as they will effectively be rationed.
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