Pearson Edexcel4ES1Latest series: June 2025

Pearson Edexcel International GCSE English as a Second Language (4ES1) grade boundaries

In short

In June 2025, candidates needed 141 out of 150 for grade 9 and 103 to 105 for grade 4.

Grade boundaries by series

Series	Max	9	8	7	6	5	4
June 2025	150	141	133–135	126–129	118–121	110–113	103–105
November 2024	150	140	134	128	120	112	105
June 2024	150	139–141	131–135	123–129	115–121	107–113	99–105
November 2023	150	140	134	129	119	109	99
June 2023	150	140	132–134	125–128	116–120	107–112	98–104
January 2023	150	138	130	122	111	100	89
June 2022	150	138	129–130	120–122	108–111	96–100	85–89
November 2021	150	133	123	113	99	85	71

Where a subject has more than one set of papers in a series (for example a version sat in a different region), each cell shows the lowest and highest boundary across them. Foundation tier boundaries and the remaining grades are in the source documents.

How to read these numbers

Across the 8 series in the table, the highest grade 9 threshold ranged from 133 to 141. Thresholds change from series to series because each set of papers is different: a harder paper has a lower threshold.

A threshold is the minimum total mark for the grade. Compare your total on a full set of papers with the thresholds for that series and paper variant.

Sources

Figures from the grade boundary documents published by Pearson. ExaminerPrep is not affiliated with Pearson. Always check the source document for your own series and paper variant.

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