May/June 2016 · 9709
A Threshold
78.0%
39 / 50 marks
Hardness
42/100
50 = a typical sitting of this paper
An A needed 78.0% of the marks — right about average for this exact paper across 21 sittings. Score 42/100.
The dashed line is this paper’s average A threshold. Sittings well below it are the hard ones — how this is scored.