Welcome to our March BTEC Tech Award newsletter. This month sees the release of results to those learners who sat assessments in January. In this edition we’ve included some important information and resources to help you understand your results and make informed decisions about certification and resits.
We’ll also be covering BTEC Tech Award results in this month’s exams officer webinar. We’d love to see you there! |
If you need any further support, or want to give us any feedback about BTEC Tech Awards, we’d love to hear from you. You can contact us through the Pearson support portal and we’ll be happy to help. |
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| 19 March |
December/January series results issued to centres |
| 20 March |
December/January series results issued to learners |
| 20 March |
Late certification window opens for learners who have received January series results |
| 28 March |
May/June entry deadline for those learners who are re-entered for assessments and received January 2025 results in March. |
| 17 April |
Late certification closes for learners who have received January series results |
| 15 May |
Deadline to submit marks on Edexcel Online and submit sampled learner work via Learner Work Transfer (LWT) |
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- converting raw marks to UMS
- understanding grade boundaries
- a grade calculator to help you determine learners’ overall grades based on their results
- considerations for retaking internal or resitting external assessments
- examiner and moderator reports
- claiming certification.
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You will receive your December/January series results on Wednesday 19 March, which you can then release to learners on Thursday 20 March. Refer to our dedicated support articles for step-by-step guidance on how to access learner results:
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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 20 March and close on 18 April via Edexcel Online.
Follow our guide to submitting a certification claim (cash in)
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.
Read our certification FAQs for details on these scenarios, as well as the rest of the certification process
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.
Remember, you need to ensure that learners are meeting the terminal rule for this qualification. The terminal assessment rule requires learners 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.
Read our scenario based terminal rule guidance |
The entry deadline for May/June assessments was the 21 February, which has now passed. We are contacting any schools that have learners who are expecting to receive an overall result in August but are missing an external or internal assessment entry. You can check this yourself in the VQ Learner Tracker, following the guidance to view missing entries. Remember, you should make entries for both your external and internal units. |
You can access Pearson-Set Assignments (PSAs) for the May/June assessments on each subject’s page, which you can select from the main BTEC Tech Award area.
Find your subject’s PSAs
Remember, the PSA for Art and Design released on 2 September and the PSA for Performing Arts released on 4 December are both for use within the May/June window.
Learner Work Transfer (LWT) will open from the 14 April, and we’ll be in touch to remind you. There’s no need to wait until the 15 May submission deadline for you to upload your learner sample, and we’ll be in touch with you to remind you when LWT is open.
Find out more about Learner Work Transfer |
Throughout February and March, we’ll be taking you through the task types that learners must complete as part of their external assessment. Join one of our free upcoming sessions and explore examples of learner responses, related mark schemes, and discuss how to prepare learners for the externally assessed task.
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We host a monthly exams officer webinar, where we’ll always have BTEC Tech Awards on the agenda. Providing you with the latest news and updates, and the upcoming tasks and deadlines.
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Teachers
If you are a teacher who is new to delivering BTEC Tech Awards this academic year, we’ve rounded up all the support we have available to get you started. Remember, if there’s anything you need help with you can contact us through the Pearson support portal and we’ll be happy to help.
Your key resources are all accessible from the ‘Course Materials’ and ‘Training’ tabs at the top of your subject’s qualification page, which you can find from our BTEC Tech Award web pages. On the course materials tab under the ‘teaching and learning materials’ category, you’ll find Teacher Guides, Transition Guides, Exemplar Standardisation Materials and more. |
- Getting Started
- Marking and Moderation
- Preparing for External Assessment
Recordings of past training events as well as bitesize videos are available from the Training webpage if you can’t attend the live events. |
Exams officers
If you are an exams officer administrating the BTEC Tech Awards for the first time, head over to our exams officer guidance page. This is a handy reference page with key information, links to key documents and a step-by-step guide to registrations, entries, assessment, results and certification. |
Quality nominees
Explore our quality assurance page which includes key quality assurance guides, quick guides, bitesize videos and live ‘catch-ups’ schedule. |
Subject advisors
Experts in their fields, and many of them former teachers, our subject advisors are here to support you throughout the year and can help with all your subject-specific queries. You can contact our subject advisors by email, book a short meeting and sign up for subject advisor updates. Meet our subject advisors here. |
While we’ll be sending this directly to you every month, there’s a wealth of support available on our website. Bookmark our BTEC Tech Awards FAQ webpage, where we’ll keep you updated.
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