March 2025 BTEC update for Business, Applied Law, Enterprise and Marketing

Subject update | Fri Feb 28 10:30:00 UTC 2025

Welcome to this March update.

20 March is results day for the January series and there is a brief window (until 28 March) to re-enter any learners who would like to resit the external assessment taken in January.

The 2026 January and May provisional timetables are available in this update as well as details of how to provide feedback on the dates. Any feedback must be received before 21 March.

The ERA resources (featured below 'Key dates') are partially organised in line with units on the BTEC Nationals in Business and certainly worth a look.

Key dates
The Educational Recording Agency
BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award
BTEC National in Business
BTEC Firsts and Nationals
The Level 2 and 3 Reforms

Key dates

5 March (4-6pm)	BTEC Tech Award (2022) in Enterprise: Preparing for External Assessment
20 March	Release of January results to learners.
21 March	BTEC Firsts, Nationals, entry deadline for external assessment for May/June.
28 March	BTEC Tech Award and BTEC Nationals learners who sat BTEC assessments in the January 2025 series can be re-entered for June exams after January results have been issued, and no late fees will be charged. the entry deadline for these learners is 28 March.
5 July	Claiming deadline: all internally assessed unit grades to be submitted and full award claims to be made by 5 July.
14 August	Level 3 results day
21 August	Level 2 results day

BTEC Tech Awards key dates schedule 2024/25 (PDF | 139.6 KB)

NEW

Support Business Teaching with Multimedia Resources from the Educational Recording Agency (ERA)

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To access this free resource registration is required - but is quick and simple. State schools in England are licensed under a central agreement with the DfE and the vast majority of independent schools also hold a current ERA Licence.

BTEC Tech Award Level 1/2 Enterprise

Go to the FAQ page

Delivery support page

Admin and delivery
Free and paid-for resources
Training videos

Go to the delivery support page

Assessment support page

The three components
Terminal assessments and resits
Grade boundaries and statistics

Go to the assessment support page

Claiming certification after the January results

If learners sat their terminal external assessment in January and are eligible to certificate, you can either submit certification claims or allow them to resit in the summer.

Certification claims for January assessments open on 21 March and close on 18 April via Edexcel Online.

Read about entering cash-in codes

You can use the grade calculator or check Section 8 of the specification to determine final grades. If a learner does wish to resit the terminal external assessment, you can still choose to submit a certification claim for them if they are eligible, or you can choose to wait until the summer. 

Go to the grade calculator

When considering resits, you should think about the likelihood of improvement and the potential impact on other assessments and learner wellbeing.

The BTEC Tech Awards are compensatory, meaning that even if a learner receives a U grade in one component, they may still achieve an overall qualification grade if their total UMS points across all components are sufficient.