A-level grade statistics · provisional 2025

Music Technology is harder than you think.

3.6%

A* rate · Music Tech · 2025

Only 1 in 27 Music Tech students were awarded A*.

A or better? 1 in 7 · 14.1%

Where the Music Tech class of 2025 actually ended up

Every grade awarded last summer, drawn to scale across 1,373 students.

A10%

B26%

C28%

D19%

E8%

U4%

A* · 50 (3.6%)

A · 144 (10.5%)

B · 363 (26.4%)

C · 384 (28.0%)

D · 258 (18.8%)

E · 115 (8.4%)

U · 59 (4.3%)

A* rate by subject

Pearson Edexcel A-level entries · ranked highest to lowest. Tap any subject to see its full grade distribution.

Music TechnologyOther subjects

Russian

84.7%

Japanese

56.3%

Persian

45.6%

Chinese

41.7%

Urdu

38.7%

Italian

38.2%

Further Mathematics

27.5%

Arabic

27.0%

Turkish

22.6%

Fine Art

22.4%

Art, Craft and Design

17.8%

Graphic Communication

16.6%

Mathematics

16.4%

Textile Design

16.2%

3D Design

15.6%

History of Art

12.2%

German

11.9%

Chemistry

11.7%

French

11.7%

Photography

11.3%

Physics

11.0%

Biology B

10.4%

Greek

10.4%

Music

9.2%

English Literature

8.8%

Spanish

8.7%

Biology Salters Nuffield

8.6%

Politics

8.6%

Economics A

8.0%

Geography

6.3%

D&T: Product Design

6.3%

Psychology

5.7%

Religious Studies

5.5%

Drama and Theatre

5.4%

History

5.3%

Economics B

4.5%

Business

4.1%

Music Technology

3.6%

English Lang. & Lit.

3.4%

Portuguese

3.1%

Statistics

3.1%

Physical Education

2.7%

English Language

2.2%

How does Music Tech compare to…

Music Technology

3.6%

A* rate · 1 in 27

Mathematics

16.4%

A* rate · 1 in 6

Compare with:

Is this just one bad year? No.

Music Tech’s A-or-better rate across four summers. The fall after 2022 wasn’t the subject getting harder: it was the national post-pandemic grading reset that pulled every subject back to pre-COVID standards. Music Tech simply settled back to where it has always sat: near the very bottom of the table.

2022COVID peak

2023

2024

2025

↓ 2022 → 2023: the system-wide reset more than halved Music Tech’s A*–A rate (28.7% → 12.7%).

Rank of 43 · A or better39 → 42 → 41 → 422022 → 2025 · bottom-tier every year

Maths fell too46.9% → 40.9%still ~3× Music Tech’s rate

Music fell too50.0% → 29.2%still ~2× Music Tech’s rate

Source: Pearson GCE Advanced Specifications Grade Statistics, June 2022, 2023 and 2024 (final) and June 2025 (provisional). Subjects with fewer than 10 candidates are excluded by Pearson. Music Technology is offered by Pearson Edexcel only: figures shown are the entire UK cohort.

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