Pearson Edexcel GCSE Music: September 2024 update

In this update

Summer 2024 results

• ResultsPlus
• Moderator report (E9)
• Principal Moderator/Examiner report
• Reviews of marking and moderation (RoMM)
• Access to scripts 
• Post results fees
• Understanding marks

Preparing for 2025 assessments

Training events

Key dates

Summer 2024 results

Results day for GCSE was Thursday 22 August. You will be able to find out the results for your cohorts and see the grade boundaries, examiner reports and begin any post-results process, including our free Access to Scripts service.

ResultsPlus

ResultsPlus is a free online results analysis tool for teachers that gives you a detailed breakdown of your students’ performance in Edexcel exams. It provides the most detailed analysis available of your students’ performance and helps you to identify topics and skills where your students could benefit from further learning, helping them gain a deeper understanding of their subject. 

Access ResultsPlus

Moderator Report (E9)

Your moderator writes a report to explain where it was necessary to adjust your centre’s marks. Where possible, your moderator advises you on how you could make improvements for future series.

You can find these on Edexcel Online. Please speak to your examinations officer if you don't have access to Edexcel Online.

There are detailed instructions on how to access the moderator report in a support article.

Read the moderator report support article

Principal Moderator/Examiner Report

The Principal Moderator or Examiner also compiles a report on how candidates performed in this year’s examinations. It provides general feedback and highlights good approaches that can be taken forward to future examination series.

You can find these reports on ResultsPlus. Please speak to your examinations officer if you don't have access to ResultsPlus.

There are detailed instructions on how to access the principal moderator/examiner report in a support article.

Read the principal examiner/moderator report support article

Reviews 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

Access to scripts

After the summer 2024 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.

The Self-Service Portal will be available until the final post-results deadline for each exam series:

• Thursday 22 August - Friday 13 December 2024

Customers should save and/or print any scripts they need for teaching and learning purposes before the post-results deadline.

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

Post Results Fees

Details of all updated fees for our post results services from 1 August 2024 can be found online.

See post results fees from 1 August 2024

Understanding marks

Get an overview of how we mark assessments and consistently award grades that fairly reflect a learner's performance. This includes setting grade boundaries.

Visit the Understanding marks pages

Preparing for 2025 assessments

The composition briefs will be released on 1 September for assessment in 2025. 

To help you prepare for the year ahead I am running an online session on 9 September at 4pm.

Book a place on the Preparing for 2025 assessments support session

Training

We are pleased to be running a series of free online training events for each component in our GCSE Music qualification this term.

Our GCSE Component 1 and Component 2 coursework marking training events are designed to help you feel more confident understanding and applying the assessment criteria when marking work internally through live marking exercises. Our new course, Effective strategies for teaching the GCSE Music appraising paper will support you delivering the exam component. 

Book a place on a training session

Key dates