This short video will tell you how to access your Edexcel Science Year 10 Exam Results
through ResultsPlus. In May 2017, the Edexcel Science team, provided you with a free Year
10 Exam available to all schools. This was to help track students’ progress over the
first two to three years of the new GCSE course. This exam was written and externally marked
by our examination team. The results of the exam won’t count towards
a student’s GCSE results, but they will provide ALL schools who participated with
a useful check on how well students are progressing. Papers were available for Foundation and Higher
tier, to help inform your tier entry decisions. Using the analysis provided by ResultsPlus
you will be able to compare the performance of your students to students in other schools
around the country and tailor teaching plans for the following year. These year 10 exams
were a one off as part of the support provided by Edexcel. To find ResultsPlus navigate to
the Pearson qualifications website, find ResultsPlus under the support tab and login using your
Edexcel online account. Once logged in the easiest way to access the year 10 exam data
will be to create a new group from the create group button on the menu screen. Next, create
a new group using the button in the left hand corner. You can find the year 10 exam data
by selecting the appropriate qualification, gcse, select the session, May 2017, select
the award, Biology, Chemistry, Combined Science and then you can choose to find the students
who took the exam. Next, give your group a name and add your students to the group, don’t
forget to save your group in the bottom right hand corner. Now return to the main results
plus home screen, click results plus analysis, show the results for a group, choose detailed
group analysis, and then find your group that you’ve named for the year 10 exam. Once
in the group you’ll be able to view individual student results as well as group data. The
year 10 exam will provide students with a graded result, however this will not link
to any specific GCSE grade. The year 10 exam data will be reported as raw marks and ventiles.
The ventile result tells a candidate where they fell in comparison to the whole cohort
sitting the exam. A ventile would divide data into 20 parts. You’ll be able to get access
into this data by clicking into the appropriate exam that the student took. This will then
show you the max score students achieved and the ventile score on the right hand side on
the grade-ometer. The ventile points are based on a candidate’s performance cumulatively
across the qualification. There are 19 ventile points. Therefore a ventile result of 95 would
mean a candidate was in the top cumulative 5% and a ventile result of 5 would mean a
candidate was in the bottom cumulative 90 to 95%. Similarly to high stakes exams, if
you hover over the grade-ometer on the right hand side of the data screen, ResultsPlus
will show you the score the student achieved and also the percent the student achieved.
If candidates have been entered for the separate sciences, they will receive a ventile for
each of the papers sat. The ventile scales for a Foundation tier paper will be different
to a Higher tier paper as cumulative scores will be different. For combined sciences a
student will receive one ventile for their performance across the 3 papers. This ventile
will be either in a Foundation tier or a Higher tier. Mixed paper entry was not allowed and
will not be allowed for GCSE (9-1) Combined Science exams. Further to the pupil and group
data, whole cohort analysis will be available via the ResultsPlus Cohort Analysis feature.
Results will be reported by ventile. Comparative data from other schools nationally, will also
be available. In summary for cohort analysis results will be available by ventile although
these won’t be mapped to their GCSE equivalents. And results will be available by paper and
tier, although overall results by subject will not be consolidated. For further details
about the year 10 exam visit the Pearson qualifications website.
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