VQ Bulletin - August results edition

This year we are releasing BTEC level 3 nationals, and BTEC level 2 firsts, technicals and tech awards (2016) under embargo a week earlier to schools and colleges.

We encourage you to use this time to check the completeness of your results, and to contact us immediately if you need any support over this time.

So that you can easily access your results, we are also sending your BTEC level 3 results to Exams Officer and Head of Centre Edexcel Online mailboxes.

Read our guide to managing results during the embargo, to find out when supporting documents will be available and who should access results during this time.

We also wanted to ask you to take extra care this week when managing results, to only issue BTEC level 3 nationals to learners on 17 August. BTEC level 2 results should NOT be issued to learners until the official results day on 24 August.

If any of your learners have not received a result and they are expecting one, you should contact us immediately through the Pearson support portal or on 0344 463 2535. 

Once released under embargo, your results are available on Edexcel Online for exams officers and heads of centres to view. Alongside your results, we will also send grade boundaries as a file to your exams officer’s Edexcel Online mailbox.

Read our guide to results reporting

If you have sent us a 7B file, we’ll also send you your overall BTEC results as an EDI file via the A2C application. If you haven’t sent us a 7B file but would like your results sent as an EDI file, you should send this to us immediately.

Read our guide to receiving EDI results

We recently introduced multi-factor authentication as an additional security measure to protect your centre and learner data. If you haven’t logged in to Edexcel Online in a while, you should log in to ensure you can access Edexcel Online using multi-factor authentication and view your results.  

Read our guide to multi-factor authentication

Ofqual set out their plans for awarding qualifications in 2023 and to return to a normal, pre-pandemic approach to grading this summer for A levels, AS levels and GCSEs, as well as for vocational qualifications. You can read Ofqual’s blog on vocational and technical grading in 2023. Our guiding principle and approach to awarding BTEC qualification results in 2023 is to return to pre-pandemic performance standards, but with checks and balances that allow us to be sensitive to the disruption learners have faced, just as for A levels and GCSEs. We aim to ensure learners are not advantaged or disadvantaged, as far as possible, compared to those studying for GCSEs and A levels.

You can read more about our approach to awarding, and how grade boundaries are set in our centre guide to BTEC results.

If you receive any queries from learners about how BTECs are awarded, you can share with them the learner guide to BTEC results.

We also know that over the last few years, more learners are now completing the RQF BTEC nationals, and centres have transitioned over from the legacy QCF. This means results distributions are not comparable to 2019.  

Read our guide to understanding RQF results for more information. 

Although we are releasing results earlier this year, you will only be able to submit post-results requests on the official learner results day. This is because you need written learner consent before submitting a post results request, as grades can go up, down or stay the same.

Read our guide to post-results services

If you are not happy with the outcome of a post-results service, you may look to appeal. You can find out more about appeals on our website, and access our BTEC appeals decision tree. 

Results for the May/June series will be issued to centres on 23 August and can be released to learners on the 24 August. You can access the final moderator reports (on Edexcel Online), which include feedback on your marking, and you’ll be able to download Principal Moderator reports from the relevant subject qualification pages, detailing outcomes of the series overall and giving helpful guidance for future series.

If you have concerns about your results having reviewed your moderator report and final marks, you can request a review of moderation (Service 3) (RoM) from results day until 28 September. Post-results service requests cannot be submitted until all learners have received their results.

You can refer to our support articles for information on how to access learner results and moderator reports, understanding results and requesting post-results services:

BTEC Tech Awards 2022: Understanding you results – Raw mark to UMS and Grade Conversion

BTEC Tech Awards 2022: Search for Results

BTEC Tech Awards 2022: Results Reports (Bulk Download)

BTEC Tech Awards 2022: Post-Results Services (PRS)

BTEC Tech Awards 2022: Accessing & Downloading Moderator Reports

If you have any further questions please contact us through the Pearson support portal. 

You can read our latest T Level update, to find out more about how T level results are issued and how to access support.

Our team of Teaching Services Specialist and Subject Advisors will be available to advise your teachers and Heads of Department on subject-specific queries on Results Day.

You can now book in a 121 session with a member of our Subject Advisor team to discuss our specifications and to help you plan your course for your learners.

Book your 121 subject advisor session