Content and assessment

Find out what students of our Edexcel Awards in Statistical Methods will learn about, and how they’ll be assessed.

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Content overview 

See below for a list of the topics covered in this qualification.
What does this qualification cover?

At all levels of entry:

  1. Data
  2. Representing data 
  3. Measures
  4. Interpreting data 
  5. Probability.

Assessment overview

Each Award is:

  • externally assessed through one written paper
  • available every January and summer series
  • awarded as Pass or Unclassified.

The Edexcel Award in Statistical Methods is available at Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3. The structure of each examination is shown below:
  Level 2  Level 3  Level 3
Duration  1 hour 30 minutes  1 hour 30 minutes 2 hours
Total marks  80 marks  80 marks  90 marks
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