Year by year
Every bar below is Cambridge, the only board publishing this subject. 2022 grades were the assessed-grades peak, and the reset since is visible in the shape of each year.
Cambridge — the only board publishing this subject
Position among the 28 subjects Cambridge published in every year from 2022 to 2026. Subjects that appear in only some years are left out, so the field is the same size each time and a change of place is a change in the subject rather than a change in the table. A subject sits differently on each measure, so the ranking is only ever a ranking of that one thing. The block beside each measure is the whole grade scale, in the colours used at the top of this page, with the grades that measure counts filled in.
The 9 subjects shown span 14.6 percentage points in 2022.
Board by board · 2026
With a single board there is no cross-board comparison to draw; the figures below are the complete published picture.
Grade distributions reflect who enters a subject as much as the exam itself, so nothing on this page is a difficulty ranking. Figures are published cumulative percentages from JCQ and the awarding bodies; per-grade shares are derived by subtracting adjacent bands. How the data is sourced and worked out.