Guidance: Key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores

Approved key stage 4 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2014 to 2021 school and college performance tables.

Documents

Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables

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Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2019 key stage 4 performance tables

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Details

This information is for:

• schools
• colleges
• awarding organisations

This page contains information about qualifications, discount codes and point scores for the school and college performance tables.

We use discount codes to group qualifications with similar content together in the school performance tables. This is so that we don’t credit schools twice for 2 similar qualifications.

We give a point score value to all qualifications in the school performance tables so that you can compare qualifications of a different level, size and grading system. These are shown in the point scores document.

Also read the:

• guidance about calculating performance points
• performance point scores for key stage 4 and 16 to 18

Published 12 October 2017
Last updated 31 July 2019 + show all updates

1. 31 July 2019 Updated Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables
2. 17 April 2019 Added updated document ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2019 key stage 4 performance tables’.
3. 19 March 2019 Updated ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables’.
4. 15 March 2019 Added an updated version of the list of 2014 to 2021 key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes.
5. 4 December 2018 Updated ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables’.
6. 3 October 2018 Replaced 2017 version of ‘KS4 discounting and early entry guidance’ with the 2018 version.
7. 28 September 2018 Updated documents ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables’ and ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2018 key stage 4 performance tables’.
8. 16 August 2018 Updated ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables’.
9. 21 June 2018 Added updated documents ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2018 key stage 4 performance tables’.
10. 13 June 2018 Attached updated version of ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes – 2014 to 2020 performance tables’ to add 3 qualifications which had been omitted from the original document.
11. 7 June 2018 Updated Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables
12. 29 March 2018 Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables corrected: 1) 2019 tab row 597, column F, discount code amended from XA1 to XA. Footnote of 2 removed in column J. 2) 2020 tab row 489, column F, discount code amended from XA1 to XA. Footnote of 2 removed in column J. 3) Footnote text for footnote of 2 removed from 2020 tab as no other qual had this flag.
13. 27 March 2018 Updated ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2019 performance tables’ to include 2020: ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables’.
14. 25 January 2018 Updated with new information about the 2017 data.
15. 27 October 2017 Update to key stage 4 qualifications spreadsheet to finalise discount codes.
16. 12 October 2017 First published.