Summer 2025 results support for Science qualifications
Hello colleagues,
In this update you can access key information and guidance for the results period for science qualifications. It includes key dates, details of post-results services (access to scripts, reviews of marking & appeals), where to find grade boundaries, and when exam materials will be available.
I hope you find it useful.
Best wishes,
Irine Muhiuddin
Science Subject Advisor
Included in this update
| 24 June | Summer 2025 question paper release for Level 2 |
| 1 July | Summer 2025 question paper release for Level 3 |
| 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) |
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.
Linear qualifications (for example UK GCSEs and A Levels, and the linear International GCSEs in science subjects) have grade boundaries set at qualification level based on raw or scaled marks.
Modular International GCSEs and all our International A Levels are different, and for each unit raw marks are converted to Uniform Mark Scale marks with fixed grade boundaries using a unique converstion table. It is these UMS marks that appear on candidates' results slips, and which will be used to determine their final grade.
The UMS can be confusing for students and for teachers, so we have produced this video guide to aid teachers in advising their students.
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 visit the support page below. 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.
The Ofqual's Understanding Grading toolkit includes useful information about how assessments are graded.
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.
Ofqual have provided some useful guidance to help you prepare for results day.
- Understanding grading toolkit for schools and colleges
- A letter to students, explaining how exam marking and grade boundaries work, what to do if results aren't what you expected and how to prepare for results day.
Grade statistics summarise the overall grade outcomes of candidates sitting Pearson examinations.
BTEC grade statistics are published later at the end of October or early November. Please note that in line with all qualifications, learner achievement is reported at qualification level and not at unit level.
We have guides aimed at both teachers learners that provide support for results days.
Qualification grades are aggregated for the BTEC qualifications. You can use the calculator to calculate the overall grades based on results for each unit and model potential outcomes should a learner obtain certain grades in units.
We also have an 'Understanding Results' page that gives you clear guidance on how results are calculated.
The raw mark grade boundaries change from series to series. We provide raw marks to points calculators for each exam series to confirm how the raw marks are converted to points. They are updated soon after the results are published.
If a learner is not eligible for a larger qualification, it may be possible to transfer them to a smaller size. Please ask your exams officer to change the registration in Edexcel Online. There is a video for Exams Officers that explains how this is done.
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.
We have Autumn term Exam Insight events for GCSE and A level that you can book onto now. Visit the link below to register your place and get times and dates.
Subject advisor
Irine Muhiuddin and Tim Lawrence
UK and International Science
