BTEC RESULTS

If your students take BTEC courses in your centre, you may have already had some correspondence from Edexcel regarding the process for obtaining BTEC results electronically via EDI rather than enter them manually in Exams organiser via results marksheets.

Edexcel are able to provide you with a file of results (regardless of your method of registration). If you registered your learners through Edexcel Online, you will still be able to request and receive an EDI file of results in August.

In order to receive BTEC results via EDI, centres must request basedata approved for your centre. Basedata will be emailed to your user email address. You will then need to copy the attachment on the email and paste it into your Examin folder (usually found in F:/Public/SIMS/Examin). Once it has been pasted in, then unzip the file and the basedata can be imported in the normal way.

Alternatively, save the file from your email to an accessible drive on your network and copy and paste from that drive.

Terminal Server schools – save the file from your email to a network drive within Terminal server.

From SIMS Homepage go to Applications & Tools tab and open File Manager

Browse to the drive and folder where you saved the files

Right click on file and select COPY

Browse to F:/Public/SIMS/Examin

Right click and select PASTE

Centres should then submit an ‘entry’ file from Exams Organiser from their Summer season (July must be an associated month for the summer season within the season pattern). Entry files should be submitted to Edexcel by the 30th April 2014.

Results Entry submissions will be processed by Edexcel and results files generated in August. Please bear in mind that sending exceptionally late files may result in delayed issue of EDI Result files (i.e. after results day) to your centre.

The process is as follows:

  1. Request BTEC Results basedata (Results – 7B) from your Edexcel online account:
  1. Ensure July is an associated month in your summer exam season via Tools | School Setup | Season Pattern:
  1. Once received, import basedata into Exams Organiser (in Summer season – 7B14_15) under board EDEXL/KSQ:
  1. Create ‘entry’ marksheets (can be course, year or class based) using the above basedata and make appropriate ‘entries’ for candidates you expect to receive results for:
  1. Submit your entry file to Edexcel via your EDI carrier e.g. A2C by 30/04/14.

Please note: The Results Entry submission does not create entries or registrations, only advises Edexcel that results may be expected and are required via EDI for import into SIMS. Any queries with this process should initially be referred to Edexcel.

With your Summer (June) 2014 season in place you can download BTEC results into Examinations Organiser. To add July to your season pattern: