July 2025 Teaching Science update
Hello colleagues,
Welcome to the July Teaching Update for Pearson Edexcel Science qualifications. In this update you'll find information to help you prepare for results days, a reminder about multifactor authentication, and links to GCSE and A level Science surveys giving you an opportunity to share your valuable feedback. Additionally, you can get the latest news on future training events and support resources to support your teaching.
Best wishes,
Irine Muhiuddin
Science Subject Advisor
We are currently reviewing our qualifications and we would appreciate if you could take a few minutes to complete this survey. This information will be used in future to help us make improvements, if needed, enabling you and your students to better access our assessments. The surveys will be open till the 27th July 5pm.
| 24 June | Summer 2025 question paper release for Level 2 (GCSE and International GCSE) |
| 1 July | Summer 2025 question paper release for Level 3 (GCE and IAL) |
| 5 July | Claiming deadline - all internally assessed unit grades to be submitted and full award claims to be made by 5 July. |
| 15 July | Summer 2025 mark schemes for Level 3 (GCE and IAL) |
| 22 July | Summer 2025 mark schemes for Level 2 (GCSE and International GCSE) |
| 19 August | Summer 2025 examiner reports for Level 3 (GCE and IAL) |
| 26 August | Summer 2025 examiner reports for Level 3 (GCSE and International GCSE) |
Results dates
| Qualification | Results to centres | Results to students |
| AS / A level /IAL / BTEC L3 | 13 August 2025 | 14 August 2025 |
| GCSE / International GCSE/ BTEC L2 | 20 August 2025 | 21 August 2025 |
You can access Summer 2025 grade boundaries on our website from results day. In addition to the official grade boundaries that are produced at subject level, we will also be providing notional grade boundaries at paper level. These can help you mark and assess future mocks.
ResultsPlus is our free online results analysis tool, that gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in Pearson Edexcel exams.
It provides you with the most detailed analysis available of your students’ performance. ResultsPlus will help you to identify topics and skills where your students could benefit from further learning – helping them gain a deeper understanding of their subject.
Teachers can sign into ResultsPlus using their Edexcel Online username and password if their account profile has ResultsPlus access granted by the Exams Officer.
Examiner Reports can be obtained from ResultsPlus on results day by following the steps below:
- Log into Results Plus using your Edexcel Online detailsOnce you are logged in under your centre, select 'ResultsPlus Analysis'.
- Then select 'Whole cohort results' followed by 'Cohort paper analysis'.
- Select the relevant qualification and series, eg 'GCE' and 'June 2025', followed by the relevant subject and 'View paper analysis'.
- Select 'Exam docs' and you will find the Examiner Report for that component
You can also use our free Access to Scripts service to view your candidates’ marked exam scripts online or download as a PDF. It is available from results day until the 12 December 2025.
Providing a rich source of information, you can use this service to help make decisions about requesting a review of marking, but it can also help inform future teaching and learning and gives insights and visibility that performance data alone cannot provide.
If scripts have been marked ‘traditionally’ (ie not online), you will need to request them, free of charge, by 12 December 2025, via the Post Results section of Edexcel Online as in previous exam series.
Note, you will need 'Exam viewer' in your Edexcel Online profile if you want to download candidate scripts from results day. Please ask your Exams Officer if you need this adding to your profile.Discover more about Access to Scripts, along with FAQs and a step-by-step User Guide.
Please note, candidate consent is required before requesting script copies, as per section 4.2 of the JCQ's Post-results services guide. Candidate consent can only be obtained after results have been published.
See how teachers have been using Access to Scripts
"An excellent service, we have used it to inform our teaching"
Take a look at the Access to Scripts case studies to see how a number of schools and colleges have been using this service to evaluate how their students performed in the exams, identify skills gaps, help tailor future teaching plans and to develop staff CPD.
If you're not happy with your students' results from the Summer exam series, you can take the following steps:
- View the grade boundaries, question papers, mark schemes and examiner reports for the paper/qualification concerned. View your students’ scripts using our free access to scripts service that is available from results day until the 12 December 2025.
- Log in to ResultsPlus to see how your students have performed on every question for the externally assessed component and compare their performance to the national average.
- If you are still unhappy with your students' results, you may apply for a review of marking via our post-results services. Full details of all our post-results services are available on our website.
Please speak to your Exams Officer if you wish to proceed with a review of marking or moderation. Exams officers should contact their Centre Account Specialist on 0344 463 2535 if they require guidance or watch our post results video. All applications for reviews of marking or moderation must be submitted through Edexcel Online.
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of a review of marking or moderation, you may wish to appeal against the decision. We will allow the head of centre (or designated member of the centre’s senior management team or examinations manager) 30 calendar days from the receipt of the outcome of the review of marking or moderation, during which an appeal may be lodged by filling in the form below. All appeals must be submitted by the entering centre.
We cannot accept appeals directly from candidates, their parents or other third parties acting on their behalf. The only exception to this is if private candidates are appealing directly without the support of the entering centre. There is further guidance on appeals on our website.
We have a dedicated web page for student post-results support. Please forward this link to your students where they can find information on the services for students.
As teachers and Heads of departments, you may not have had to access our secure systems for some time, with the next time you need to do this being on learner results days on 14 and 21 August.
We’d like to take this opportunity to remind all users of systems such as Edexcel Online and ResultsPlus, that there is now a requirement to authenticate via an app on a smart phone in order to access these systems.If you haven't accessed these platforms for some time, we would urge you to do so before finishing for the summer, so we can work with you to resolve any issues and avoid any delays in access on results days.
You can get additional support for registering a device and general troubleshooting in our Pearson Portal Authenticator support article.
Taking these steps now will ensure you all have a successful results day.Additional support for Multi-Factor Authentication can be found in customer support article.
07 July 2025 at 16:00-17:30 BST
This free online network is intended to support teachers who are delivering Pearson Edexcel's GCSE Combined Science Biology, Chemistry and Physics specifications.
You will:
- explore practical teaching and learning strategies for effective practical work
- explore ways to overcome barriers to maximise learning from these activities
- delve into strategies to support SEND learners in science practicals
- have opportunities to share good practices with colleagues
- explore resources from Pearson Edexcel to support all learners in developing their practical skills.
Applied Science | 09 July 2025 at 15:30 - 17:00 GMT
This event is suitable for CENTRES IN ENGLAND ONLY. It will cover a minimum of one mandatory unit plus other units where applicable. Delegates will:
- Explore the assessment criteria and requirements for internal assessment.
- Look at some examples of assessment materials.
- Address common issues and frequently asked questions.
We are host a briefing session for centres in England on 14 July 2025 at 16:00 - 17:00 GMT.
The session will focus on the BTEC National in Applied Science (AAQ) and familiarising centres with both existing resources, and highlight additional support which is being made available over the summer and into the Autumn. There will also be the opportunity for you to ask questions and hear from other centres. Book from the training page.
We already have several Autumn term events available that you can book onto now, and more will be added. Visit the link below where you can explore upcoming training. Events include Summer 2025 Exam Insight events.
On our Professional Development Academy training page you can watch pre-recorded events, such as 'New to Edexcel', and look out for upcoming training events. A link to this page is provided below.
Our 'Maths in Science' support resources have been expanded further with two new videos on decimals and percentages. Access all our 'Maths in Science' support resources on the GCSE Science qualification page from the 'Maths Support' section.
Teaching support materials are available to support teachers with delivering the BTEC National AAQ Applied Science for first teaching from September 2025. They can be found on the science qualification page. Links to them are also provided below.
Published resources to support the new BTEC National AAQs are now available. You can find the links below. Please note that there is no compulsory requirement to purchase or use Pearson's paid resources.
To enable us to improve the experience of teachers using our qualifications and students sitting our exams, we gather feedback after each exam series. If you're a teacher, and your students have taken any of our exams in the May/June 2025 series, we are eager to hear your thoughts
The Provisional timetables for January 2026 are available on our Provisional timetables web page.
The feedback window is open from Monday 24 June to Friday 19 July. Please send any feedback into us at Timetables@Pearson.com.
In December the DfE published the outcome of their review of post-16 qualification reform. The aim of the review was to determine which qualifications will be funded for 16-19 learners in England for the 2025/26 academic year. You can read about BTEC reform news via our dedicated webpage.
Our BTEC level 3 funding guide provides details of funding arrangements for all level 3 BTECs:
The defunding of some RQF BTEC Nationals qualifications from 1 August 2025 will affect centres using a top-up model with their learners; please read the information and guidance in the update below.
We have held briefing sessions that provide information and guidance too; links to some of the recordings are provided below.
You can keep up-to-date on BTEC L2 reform news from the web page below.
We announced that T Levels in Health and Science will be will be delivered by Pearson from September 2026. Find out more in our April update.
UK and International GCSE and A level Science Facebook groups
We recently launched two new Science Facebook groups for GCSE and A level teachers teaching UK and International science qualifications. Here you can connect with other teachers as well as receive news about Pearson Science qualifications. You can request to join the groups from the links below.
Visit our Facebook group for teachers of UK Science courses
Visit our Facebook group for teachers of International Science courses
You can also follow Pearson via our social media channels - see links below.
Subject advisor
Irine Muhiuddin and Tim Lawrence
UK and International Science
