What is ResultsPlus?

ResultsPlus is Pearson’s feedback platform for learners and providers across our Functional Skills qualifications. Because Functional Skills assessments are on-demand and remain live for up to a year, we cannot return scripts. Instead, we offer detailed feedback.

This feedback is the same across our onscreen and paper-based offer at Levels 1 and 2 for English and Maths (Entry 3 and Level 1 for Digital) and is completely free of charge. It gives you a clear, behind-the-grade insight into your learners’ performance, helping you to support them better. Anyone within a provider can access this information via an EdexcelOnline login (which is usually provided by your Exams Officer).

New For 2025

From October 2025, ResultsPlus will be including the majority of learners who complete an assessment with an access arrangement whether it be coloured paper, modified papers or typed scripts. This important development ensures all learners benefit from the feedback we provide.

Logging In To ResultsPlus

To access feedback on ResultsPlus, you need an EdexcelOnline login with ResultPlus added to it. Once logged in, select the correct centre number. For most users, this happens automatically, but if your centre has multiple numbers, use the drop-down menu.

From this drop-down menu, you should choose the correct centre number.

Top Tip: this usually includes a letter after the code followed by the centre name.

Next, click Functional Skills On-Demand Analysis in the second group of links.

You’re now ready to view your data.

Individual Learner Analysis

For every learner who completes a relevant Functional Skills assessment, we provide detailed, behind-the-grade feedback. This feedback can then be used to inform decisions about next steps for the learner. This could be regarding a potential progression (from Level 1 to 2 in terms of Maths or Entry 3 to Level 1 for Digital) or a resit. This feedback shows areas where the learner has been successful and areas where they need to develop their skills.

Functional Skills Maths

Let’s take a look at some feedback for a Level 1 learner.

This image shows that the learner was not successful with this attempt, and that they achieved 57% (which is very close to passing).

The full coverage and range feedback breaks the paper down by coverage and range points. To support tutors and providers more effectively, we have broken down that feedback into component parts where we feel it is important to separate off the skills. You can see for coverage and range point 11 (decimals) we have broken that feedback down into 11.1 add and subtract decimals and 11.2 multiply and divide decimals. This helps you pinpoint the skills the learners need to develop.

Looking at the feedback, you can see the unit mark and the total mark. The unit mark is how many marks the learner achieved, and the total mark is how many marks were available (these may not be in the same question). Finally, you can see the percentage scored for each of the coverage and range points. You can use this information to help make judgements about what skills to prioritise for the learner. In this case, the learner failed to pick up marks when converting between units if capacity and units of money. However, there were more marks available for converting between units of money, so maybe that should take precedence when supporting the learner.

For this learner, I would look at revision sessions on the following topics prior to a resit:

• Work with simple ratio
• Converting between units of money
• Represent grouped data graphically
• Find the mean of a set of quantities
• Find the range of a set of quantities
• You can use ExamWizard to support with this.

Digital Functional Skills

ResultsPlus works the same way for Digital Functional Skills as it does for Maths. Let’s take a look at a Level 1 learner.

This image shows that the learner was not successful with this attempt, and that they achieved 63% (which is very close to passing).

The key difference between Digital and Maths is that ResultsPlus breaks down the score by section. Section A is the knowledge test and Section B is the skills test. You can see by looking at this feedback that the learner gained full marks on the knowledge test, so the issues lie in the skills section. Again, it is important to look at the unit marks and total marks. You can see on the high value coverage and range points that the learner struggled. They would benefit from more support on:

• Chart a single series of numeric data using an appropriate type of chart and apply suitable titles and labels
• Use email for a range of contexts and audiences
• Manage account settings for an online service (including personal details, login credentials, marketing and communication preferences).

Cohort Analysis

The other way of accessing the data is through cohort analysis. This looks at the full range of data for a particular month, all the assessments. Using this can inform decisions about the success of the delivery of certain aspects of the curriculum. Let’s take a look at a month’s worth of assessments for Level 2 Maths.

The first thing you see is the breakdown by outcomes for the learners. You can see that the majority of the learners were successful. On the right-hand side, you can see a breakdown by percentage score. The key aspect here is the learners achieving less than 30%. These learners are a considerable way from achieving and you must question whether they were test ready and whether they would have benefited from more practice prior to their assessment.

For the coverage and range aspect of the feedback, you can see that this is significantly larger than for the individual. We need to remember that Pearson has a number of live assessments at any one time, so this monthly analysis covers all of these in the one format.

As with the individual analysis, you can see the unit mark, the total mark and the percentage scored across the top. The unit mark and total mark are even more important here as they show the variance of the marks achieved by the learners and against those that were available. Looking at point 2.1 you can see a total percentage of 58% of the marks achieved. Compared to point 5.2, this looks positive as that achieved only 50%. But when you look at the unit total, you can see that 2.1 had considerably more marks available (over six times as many), so you need to factor this into our analysis. For this cohort, you could look at the following:

• Carry out calculations with numbers up to one million
• Order, approximate and compare decimals
• Calculate amounts of money
• Estimate the mean of a grouped frequency distribution

One thing that comes up a lot in Chair of Examiners’ Reports is that learners do need to focus more on the basics, and this seems to be borne out by this cohort too.

Using this data, you could have a CPD session where tutors share how they deliver these elements of the curriculum allowing them to share their good practice and to receive some top tips on how to approach them in the future.

ResultsPlus is a vital tool for supporting learners and tutors across Functional Skills Maths and Digital. Remember too that the individual data can be shared with the learner and used to focus on the positives as well as the areas for improvement.