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May and June will be especially busy as you support learners through their assessments – thank you for all the work you’ve been doing to prepare them.

This month also sees the 15 May deadline for the upload of Pearson-Set Assignment (PSA) learner work and marks. It’s essential you meet this deadline to guarantee your students will receive their results on-time in August, and we’ve included key information to help you.

New to BTEC Tech Awards? If you’re not sure where to start, don’t worry we’ve got you covered. Jump straight to our support for new centres.

Don’t forget, our support portal is full of articles covering every aspect of the BTEC Tech Awards – take a look and find what you need.

Explore our BTEC Tech Awards support

If there’s anything else you need, please reach out through the Pearson support portal. We’re here to help.

Now's the time to submit your learners’ marks and samples for the summer series BTEC Tech Award internal assessments. The deadline to upload both marks and sample learner work is this Thursday 15 May 2025.

We contacted all centres with internal assessment entries at the start of May with guidance on submitting marks, how to view and submit your sample and more.

Need more help? Please reach out to us through the Pearson support portal. We are here and ready to help you meet this deadline.

After you have submitted marks and the requested samples of learner work for Pearson-Set Assignments, you can expect to receive the initial Moderator Feedback Report by 16 June (provided work has been uploaded by the 15 May deadline). This report will provide valuable information about the accuracy of your marking and offer guidance on areas where you may choose to amend marks (if necessary). Amending marks is optional. You can learn more about the reports and making mark amendments on out support portal.

As part of the improved release schedule, the new PSA for December/January 2025/26 series is almost here! You’ll be able to access these on the 2 June, giving you more time to plan, prepare, mark, and upload assessments.*

Remember, you need to ensure that learners are meeting the terminal rule for BTEC Tech Awards. 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.

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.

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.

Our live training events cover: 

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.