Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education 0610 Biology June 2011 Grade Thresholds

BIOLOGY
International General Certificate of Secondary Education
Grade thresholds taken for Syllabus 0610 (Biology) in the May/June 2011 examination.

maximum mark available Component 11 Component 12 Component 13 Component 21 Component 22 Component 31 Component 32 Component 33 Component 51 Component 52 Component 61 Component 62 Component 63 40 40 40 80 80 80 80 80 40 40 40 40 40

minimum mark required for grade: A 31 31 31 N/A N/A 38 39 39 28 29 25 26 26 C 24 24 24 30 34 22 25 25 22 22 20 22 22 E 20 20 20 21 24 12 12 12 17 17 15 16 16 F 17 17 17 18 20 9 10 10 14 13 12 13 13

The threshold (minimum mark) for B is set halfway between those for Grades A and C. The threshold (minimum mark) for D is set halfway between those for Grades C and E. The threshold (minimum mark) for G is set as many marks below the F threshold as the E threshold is above it. Grade A* does not exist at the level of an individual component. The thresholds for the syllabus are determined first by adding together the thresholds for the components taken by the candidate. A reduction may be made at the higher grades depending on the correlation of the papers. If the maximum raw marks for the components are not in the weighting/relationship specified in the syllabus, a weighting is applied to arrive at the overall thresholds. The A* threshold is calculated using the difference between A and B as a starting point. The maximum total mark for this syllabus is 200. The overall thresholds for the different grades were set as follows.

Option AX AY

Combination of components 04, 11, 31 04, 12, 32

A* 146 145

A 127 128

B 108 111

C 90 94

D 76 78

E 63 63

F 52 53

G 41 43

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Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education 0610 Biology June 2011 Grade Thresholds Option BX BY CX CY CZ DY EX FX FY GX GY HX Combination of components 11, 31, 51 12, 32, 52 11, 31, 61 12, 32, 62 13, 33, 63 12, 32, 84 04, 11, 21 11, 21, 51 12, 22, 52 11, 21, 61 12, 22, 62 11, 21, 84 A* 137 139 134 134 134 145 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A A 120 122 117 119 119 128 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A B 103 105 100 104 104 111 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A C 86 89 84 89 89 94 98 94 99 92 99 100 D 74 75 72 75 75 78 86 83 88 81 87 87 E 62 62 60 61 61 63 75 73 77 71 76 74 F 51 51 49 51 51 53 63 62 64 60 64 63 G 40 40 38 41 41 43 51 51 51 49 52 52

Grade Thresholds are published for all GCE A/AS and IGCSE subjects where a corresponding mark scheme is available.

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