August 2026 BTEC Performing Arts update
Sat Aug 01 08:24:00 UTC 2026
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Welcome to your August 2026 Results Day update.
As Results Days approach, this update is designed to provide you with everything you need to feel confident, informed and well prepared. Whether you're supporting students, reviewing outcomes, responding to questions or planning next steps, you'll find key information, guidance and resources to help you navigate the period successfully.
As always, please do get in touch if there is anything further you need. We're here to support you throughout the results period and beyond.
In this update you will find information on:
- 2026 Assessment surveys
- Preparing for results days
- Understanding your students' results - a guide to post-results services
- Support for students ahead of results day
- Useful information
- BTEC Nationals: raw marks to grade point conversion for externally assessed units
- Tech Award: Raw to UMS marks converter
- Training events and support in the autumn term
- BTEC Performing Arts Sharing Best Practice Facebook page
- Support and Contact
Help us improve the assessment experience for your students
Have your say on our 2026 Performing Arts assessments!
If your students took our qualifications in the May/June 2026 series, we'd love to hear about your experience. Share your views on assessment themes, internal assessment processes, moderation, external assessments, and the support and resources available.
Your feedback goes directly to our senior moderators, examiners and subject teams, helping to inform future developments.
Results Dates
Qualification |
Date released to centre |
Date released to student |
|---|---|---|
| BTEC Nationals | 5 August 2026 | 13 August 2026 |
| T Levels | 12 August 2026 | 13 August 2026 |
| BTEC Tech Awards | 14 August 2026 | 20 August 2026 |
Getting ready for results day?
Our post-results support guide can help you:
- navigate students’ results,
- understand the available data,
- find the right support if you have queries about grading or marking.
Waiting for exam results can be nerve-wracking for many students. Our guide for students, parents and carers on Understanding results and grades contains helpful information about what to expect on results day and where to find further support.
The guide includes information on:
- dates for results days
- receiving and understanding results
- grades and grade boundaries
- what steps to take if they are not happy with their results
- university applications
- certificates
- where to find further support.
Please pass this information on to your students.
You can access Summer 2026 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.
• View grade boundaries
• View guidance on setting grade boundaries
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.
Take a closer look at ResultsPlus
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 11th December 2026.
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.
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.
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.
Discover more about Access to Scripts, along with FAQs and a step-by-step User Guide.
View our Access to Scripts guide
If you're not happy with your students' results this summer, you should 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.
• Log in to ResultsPlus to see how your students have performed on every question 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.
• Access teacher post-results support
The deadline for requesting a Review of marking and moderation (ROMM) is 24 September 2026 for Tech Award, Firsts and BTEC Nationals (Service 1, 2 and 3).
View our guide to post-results services
If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of a review of marking, 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 using the webform. There is further guidance on appeals on our website.
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.
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 2026 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.
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.
Performing Arts training events in the autumn term
We have some free online training events happening in the autumn term, starting with All Set for 2026-27 events.
As your Subject Advisor, I will be leading this events - as well as sharing information, guidance and news, there will be the opportunity to ask questions and share good practice. Come join us!
We are currently finalising training events for the Tech Award, so please keep an eye on the BTEC Training webpage.
| All Set for 26-27: BTEC Level 2 Performing Arts (Tech Award and Firsts) | 8 September 2026 | 15:30-16:30 BST | Register now |
| All Set for 26-27: BTEC Level 3 Performing Arts and Production Arts | 10 Sept 2026 | 15:30-16:30 BST | Register now |
Do you teach any of our BTEC Performing Arts or Production Arts courses?
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Whether you're after inspiration or support, this is a great place to collaborate with others and get the latest news.
Subject advisor
Paul Webster
Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts
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