August 2025 BTEC update for Business, Applied Law, Enterprise and Marketing

Raw marks and grade points available in Edexcel Online following this route:

1. BTEC
2. External Assessment
3. View Results by Assessment Booking
4. Choose June 2025 series.
5. If you leave the programme and unit fields blank the search will return all bookings for the series.
6. Select the unit you are interested in (tick in the left-hand column)
7. Choose Export results

You will get a csv file with the information you want.

• the raw mark is in the column headed 'Score'
• the grade point is in the column headed UMS.

Please note that in order to access this you will need the ‘Results’ box ticked in your Edexcel Online user profile. It is not the policy of all centres to make this available so you may have to ask your Exams Officer to print out the spreadsheet for you.  

When you receive your results in August, it’s important that you have all the information you need to support your students. Our Understanding Results page gives you clear guidance on how results are calculated, how component marks contribute to the final grade, grade boundaries, and how to access post-results services if needed.

For BTECs grade boundaries are set for external units at each exam series. They are set by a group of subject and assessment experts reviewing a range of evidence, both qualitative and quantitative, to ensure that there is fairness, validity and robustness in the grade boundaries. The grade boundaries for the Summer exam series will be available on the link below.

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.

ResultsPlus is an online results analysis tool that gives you a detailed breakdown of your candidates’ performance in BTEC exams and set tasks.

For Unit 3 (Personal and Business Finance) for example, ResutsPlus can provide you with a question by question breakdown of candidate scores.  You may also find it helpful to understand how your candidates’ performance compares with class and national averages.  ResultsPlus will also help you to identify potential topics, skills and types of question where candidates struggled and this may support refinements to your teaching and learning approaches.

For the set task units (Units 2, 6 and 7 on the BTEC Nationals in Business), ResultsPlus can provide you with the score achieved by your learners for each Assessment Focus.  Again,  this will help you to identify potential skills where candidates struggled and may support refinements to your teaching and learning approaches.

The Access to Scripts service allows you to view your candidates’ marked scripts online or download as PDFs for exams such as Unit 3 on the BTEC Nationals in Business.

The portal can only be accessed by Edexcel Online users who have the 'Exam Viewer' profile ticked on Edexcel Online. Your exams officer gives teachers access to 'Exam Viewer'.

Please note that these scripts do not contain examiners' annotations.

If scripts have been marked 'traditionally' (i.e. not online), you will need to request them, free of charge, by the published deadline, via the Post Results section of Edexcel Online as in previous exam series.

For set tasks like units 2, 6 and 7 on the BTEC Nationals  in Business, your Exams Officer will have kept a copy in centre so this service does not apply.

Candidate consent is required before requesting script copies, as per section 6.2.1 of the JCQ's Post-Results Services guide.  Candidate consent can only be obtained after results have been published.

Candidate consent forms can be found in Appendix B of the JCQ Post results Services document.

Review of marking of externally assessed components (Service 2)

This is a check that our examiners have marked externally assessed components correctly and includes:

• a clerical check (Service 1)
• a review of marking of units/components by a senior examiner

You can ask us to review the marking of exam papers for individual candidates and the results for each candidate will be reported separately. This service isn't available for internally assessed/externally moderated coursework components.

Candidates’ marks or grades can go up, down or stay the same.

The deadline for completion is within 20 calendar days of receiving the request.

The deadline for us to receive your request for a review of marking is 25 September.

Centres must obtain written candidate consent for clerical re-checks and

reviews of marking, as with these services candidates’ marks and subject grades may be lowered. Candidate consent must be obtained after the publication of results.

Candidates must be informed that their marks and subject grades could go
down as well as up and must provide their written consent before a request is submitted. (A suggested form for centres to use is included as Appendix A of the JCQ Post-results Guide).  

If a learner is not eligible for a qualification, having achieved a U, for example, in an externally assessed unit, it may be possible to transfer to a smaller size. Please ask your exams officer to change the registration in Edexcel Online. There is a video for exams officers in Edexcel Online called ‘Transfers’ to explain how this is done.

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, during which an appeal may be lodged

Appeals guidance

Applications for appeals may only be accepted from a head of centre (on behalf of a candidate or a group of candidates) or private candidates. 

The grade statistics for BTEC qualifications are published in late October/early November on the grade statistics page of the website.

These statistics can be used for benchmarking purposes. Please note that in line with all qualifications, learner achievement is reported at qualification level and not at unit level.

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.

As we look forward to results day we’ve updated our understanding results page to include some important information about the differences between the legacy and reformed Tech Awards.

We’ve also updated our post-results services guidance, which includes information on selecting the correct post-results service for your request. Service 3 should be used for moderated internal components and can only be raised after the release of results. It applies to whole cohorts and individual learner results cannot be requested for review.

A downloaded csv file can be used to check the final raw mark for each component. For internally assessed components, if your centre marks were accepted in moderation the final raw marks will match your submission. If your centre marks were adjusted through the moderation process, detailed instructions are available for analysis of the difference between your submitted centre mark and the final raw mark awarded.

Review of moderation of internally assessed components (Service 3)

Where we've adjusted centre marks during moderation, this service checks that our moderator has made an accurate judgement on the centre’s ability to mark the work to the national standard. This includes:

• a review of the original moderation by a senior moderator
• feedback with a similar level of detail to the original moderator report

This service can't be requested if we agreed centre marks during moderation.

A review of moderation (Service 3) replicates the original moderation process and therefore the same sample will need to be available for review. Any mark changes may impact all candidates completing this component at the centre in the current exam session.

The deadline for us to receive your request for a review of moderation is 26 September.

Written candidate consent is not required for a review of moderation.
Candidates’ marks may be lowered but their published subject grades will not
be lowered in the series concerned. However, centres should be aware that a
lowered mark may be carried forward to future certification.

We’ve recently updated our BTEC Tech Awards (2022) FAQs to include more information about learners that are absent from one or more components, and don’t have grounds for special consideration.

Where a student has been entered for all required components of the qualification with the intention of certificating, and is then absent from one or more components, a partial absence qualification grade will be awarded based on the components the student has completed. This will be indicated on the student's certificate with a # symbol. For a partial absence grade to be awarded, the student must have achieved sufficient UMS points and a cash-in must be entered.

The terminal assessment rule requires learners to take the external assessment at the end of their qualification (when the learner is due to certificate). This means that learners must sit internal component assessments either prior to or in the same series as the external assessment to fulfil this terminal rule.

If a learner chooses to retake an internal assessment in a series after they sat the terminal external assessment, they will also need to resit the external component to satisfy the terminal rule.

Learners are allowed one resit of the external assessment within the programme.