BTEC Tech Award March Update

During this session, you will learn about the types of questions learners can expect to find in their BTEC Tech Award (2022) Component 3 exam. We will look at examples of questions and mark schemes, and discuss how to prepare learners for the exam.

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.

Now you can get your 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

View the key date schedule documents for all relevant dates

Key Dates 2024 2025 Schedule

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.

BTEC marks convertor support

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.

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:

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

Results Plus 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.

Access to scripts Support

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. 

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.

Explore our new terminal rule scenario guide

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.

JCQ Guidance