BTEC Tech Award February Update
I hope your Component 3 assessments went well, for you, and your students. We will be working with you now to provide early moderator feedback and finalise your raw marks for submission before awarding can proceed towards what will hopefully be a successful set of results in March.

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Training Events


During these sessions, you will learn about the types of questions learners can expect to find in their BTEC Tech Award (2022) external assessments, and how they can maximise achievement. We will look at examples of questions and mark schemes, and discuss how to prepare learners for external assessment.
During the event you will:
- Discuss the external assessment component content
- Gain an overview of the assessment and its structure
- Look at example questions and the accompanying mark schemes
This event can count as 2 Hours of CPD. Please be aware that these events will be recorded and shared publicly.
Accessing and analysing your results

Preparing for March Results
Multi-Factor Authentication for Edexcel Online

To avoid any unnecessary delay in accessing your results and supporting learners, we are asking you to log on to one of the following platforms, ensuring you have a valid password and can authenticate using the MFA app.
- Edexcel Online (EOL)
- ResultsPlus
- Exam Viewer
The sooner you do this and ensure that your access is working the better.
Secure callbacks: Some issues, such as the need for an MFA device reset, requires us to complete a secure callback on the number we have on file. This usually means speaking to your centre reception first.
We have adapted our secure callback process to allow the use of a personal mobile number. If any secure callbacks are required during the summer holidays while you are not in centre, we are still able to do this quickly and securely.
Further Support: We appreciate that you may have questions about multi factor authentication..
Accessing Pearson Services Using Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Now you can get your initial moderator feedback report through the Edexcel Online (EOL) portal, please check that you have all the required EOL profile setting and if there are any issues with this talk to your Exams Officer as they are the only people that can give you the profile settings required.
Read our guide to accessing your moderator feedback report
As soon as your initial moderator feedback report is ready to download, a notification email will be sent to your Exams Manager, Exams Officer and Exams Assistant and Quality Nominee to let them know. They’ll then be able to download this in Edexcel Online and forward to anyone who needs to review this. Your final moderator report will be published and accessible from Edexcel Online on results day as usual.


Results days: Key dates
Qualification |
Exam session | Results to centres | Results to students |
---|---|---|---|
Tech Award 2022 | Dec/Jan 2025 | 19/03/2025 | 20/03/2025 |
Tech Award 2022 | May/Jun 2025 | 15/08/2025 | 21/08/2025 |
View the key date schedule documents for all relevant dates
Grade Boundaries
You can access Dec/Jan 2025 grade boundaries by component by using the Raw Mark to UMS convertor tool called 'BTEC marks convertor support' found on the website.
Using this tool you can access all raw to UMS conversions for all components in the Tech Award 2022 qualification.
Once you know each component UMS mark you can add these together to calculate the overall qualification score using the grade table from the specification. See below.
Qualification Grade | L2D* | L2D | L2M | L2P | L1D | L1M | L1P |
Max UMS = 300 | 270 | 240 | 210 | 180 | 150 | 120 | 90 |
Learners who do not achieve the standard required for a Level 1 Pass grade will receive a uniform mark in the range 0–89.
The Level 2 Distinction* grade at qualification level will be awarded only if a learner has achieved a Level 2 Distinction in each component and the minimum number of uniform marks for the Level 2 Distinction* at qualification level.



Availability of Dec/Jan 2025 Question Papers, Mark Schemes and Examiner Reports
Exam materials from the Summer 2024 exam series will be made available on our website (secure download) on the following dates:
Assessment materials | Date of availability on website |
---|---|
Question Papers | Available |
Mark Schemes | Results Day |
PSA Moderator Reports | Results Day |
Externally assessed component Examiner Reports | Results Day |
ResultsPlus - our online results analysis tool
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 detailed analysis available of your students’ performance compared to national and other schools.
You can access ResultsPlus using your Edexcel Online username and password if your account profile has ResultsPlus access granted by your Exams Officer.
Details for use of Results Plus for the Tech Award 2022 can be found in the support guide

Access to Scripts - Component 3
You can 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.
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.

What if you have questions about the results



Post-results support services
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 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.

The deadline for requesting a Review of marking and moderation (ROMM) is 17 April 2025.
How to apply for post-results services
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.
Post-results support for students
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.


Appeals
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.
Useful background content


Learners are required to take the external assessment at the end of their qualification (the series in which the learner certificates). 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 re-sit the external component to satisfy the terminal rule.
Learners are allowed one retake of each internal component, and one re-sit of the external assessment within the programme.
To help you understand the terminal rule, we’ve created a new scenario based quick quide that you can use to help you plan your learners path to certification.
The Tech Award 2022 Key dates are also a vital reference and these sit alongside the key dates and term-time check points below.
We are sharing an important update regarding the key dates and term-time checkpoints. To every centre that has recently delivered any of our BTEC Tech Award qualifications. These key dates have been designed to ensure BTEC results are delivered successfully to all learners expecting a result in 2025
BTEC key dates and term-time checkpoints 2024/25

Distinction * qualification grade needs all component results to be Distinction.
The UMS total will tell you what qualification outcome the student has achieved, except that for a D* certification all three components also need to be at Distinction. So it is possible for a student to have 270 UMS and not achieve an overall D*.
From the specification section 8:
The Level 2 Distinction* grade at qualification level will be awarded only if a learner has achieved a Level 2 Distinction in each component and the minimum number of uniform marks for the Level 2 Distinction* at qualification level.




Learners can retake internally assessed components once during their course.
If learners are retaking internally assessed components, they must respond to the new PSA released for that series. Learners are permitted to adapt work from their initial sitting where it is appropriate. They can use the full allocated time, including monitored preparation where applicable, and if they choose to adapt work from their initial sitting, they will need to repurpose, build upon and/or amend their work to meet the new PSA. Learners should not be overly guided on how to improve their work, and if assistance is provided, this should be documented and considered during assessment.
For further information, centres should follow the JCQ Guidance with particular attention paid to sections 2 and 17.
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.



You will submit certification claims for the new BTEC Tech Awards during the series in which learners are sitting their terminal external assessment. You will do this using the cash-in code for the qualification, which you can find in our Information Manual.
You can make certification claims during the normal entry window for the assessment series. If you have a learner who sits their terminal assessment in January and is happy with their result, you will be able to submit a late claim following the release of January results. However, if a learner is not happy with their results and intends to resit in the May/June series, you may choose to delay claiming until making their resit entry.
We have revised the FAQs to include more detail about Claiming certification please review this material carefully

The new VQ Learner Tracker, is a new tool you can use to identify where cash-ins are missing and help you to manage your BTEC Tech Award cohort.
Subject advisor
Tim Brady
Computer Science and ICT Subject Advisor
