August 2025 BTEC Performing Arts update

• Key dates for Tech Award and Firsts 
• Key dates for Nationals
• All Set for 2025-26 online events
• Summer 2025 results
• Access to scripts
• BTEC Nationals: raw marks to grade point conversion for externally assessed units
• Tech Award: Raw to UMS marks converter
• Grade boundaries for externally assessed units
• Review of marking and moderation (RoMM)
• Post results fees
• BTEC Performing Arts Sharing Best Practice Facebook page
• Support and Contact

Key dates for Tech Award and Firsts 

Key dates for Nationals

All Set for 2025-26 online events

In September we will be offering some free online information and networking events to help you plan for the year ahead.

In the events we will:

• Reflect on the Summer exam series for external and internal components and units
• Look at the key events and up to date information for the new academic year 
• Share ideas, resources and approaches to teaching the components
• Have the opportunity to ask questions and network 

Summer 2025 results 

For the internally assessed components and external assessments from the summer series, the results will be issued to centres on 15 August for BTEC Tech Awards (and external assessments for Firsts). For BTEC Nationals in Performing Arts, you'll be able to see the external assessment results from 6 August.

You can find the results for externally assessed units and components for your cohorts via Edexcel Online.

Access to scripts

After the results are published in August, centres will be able to view and download scripts which have been marked online free of charge from our self-service portal via Edexcel Online.

Customers should save and/or print any scripts they need for teaching and learning purposes before the deadline(to be confirmed but is usually in December).

Scripts do not have examiner annotation on them. The marked script allows teachers to evaluate how the student performed on particular questions in relation to what they have been taught; the Principal Examiner's report and the exemplars that we make available demonstrate how the mark scheme is applied.

If scripts have been marked "traditionally" (i.e. not online), centres will have to request them via the Post Results section of Edexcel Online as in previous exam series.

These scripts will also be free of charge, but the final dates to request them are the same as the published JCQ Access to Scripts deadlines.

Visit the Access to scripts pages

BTEC Nationals: raw marks to grade point conversion for externally assessed units

Where to find the raw marks and grade points?

The conversions for your students are 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.  

Tech Award: Raw to UMS marks converter

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.

Grade boundaries for externally assessed units

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.

Review of marking and moderation (RoMM)

If you're a centre with a concern about a student's results, you can use our post results services. We have details about these services and their cost online.

Visit the RoMM pages

Post results fees

Details of the fees for post results services from 1 August 2025 to 31 July 2026 are now online.

Visit the post results fees page

BTEC Performing Arts Sharing Best Practice Facebook page

We have a private space where ideas and resources for BTEC Performing Arts qualifications can be shared. There are over 2,400 members with daily posts and support available. 

Come and join us!

BTEC Performing Arts Sharing Best Practice

Support and contact

Please feel free to get in touch, if you require any help or support in the teaching and assessment of our performing arts courses.
You can access my contact details below.