{"id":65900,"date":"2025-08-14T07:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65900\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T07:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T07:45:07","slug":"a-level-results-record-number-of-students-get-into-first-choice-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65900\/","title":{"rendered":"A- level results: Record number of students get into first-choice university"},"content":{"rendered":"

BTecs: What are they and how are they graded?published at 07:14 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

07:14 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Vanessa Clarke
Education reporter<\/p>\n

It’s not just all about A-levels today, as thousands of students will also be receiving results for their BTecs. <\/p>\n

A BTec, which stands for the Business and Technology Education Council, is a practical qualification. Courses are assessed through exams, regular coursework and projects, and sometimes placements.<\/p>\n

BTec Firsts are Level 2 qualifications, meaning they are equivalent to GCSEs. Students often take a mixture of the two. They can be helpful for people trying to get into further education colleges.<\/p>\n

BTec Nationals are Level 3 qualifications, so can be taken alongside or instead of A-levels.<\/p>\n

They are studied over one or two years.<\/p>\n

Health and social care and applied science are among the most popular BTecs. Other subjects include construction, electrical engineering and art and design.<\/p>\n

Research suggests, external<\/a> one in four students use them as a route into university, while others gain occupation-specific skills and go straight into employment. BTecs are graded on a scale:<\/p>\n

Starred Distinction\/Distinction Star (D*)<\/p>\n

Distinction (D)<\/p>\n

Merit (M)<\/p>\n

Pass (P)<\/p>\n

Some BTecs are worth two or three A-levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BTecs: What are they and how are they graded?published at 07:14 British Summer Time 07:14 BST Vanessa ClarkeEducation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-65900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}