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Help calculating btec grade

I’m doing the double btec award level 3 applied science and was wondering what my grade Is
I did 8 units
Unit 1 merit
Unit 4 distinction
And the rest I got passes
What would my overall grade be?

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 1

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by Izelgulsal

I’m doing the double btec award level 3 applied science and was wondering what my grade Is
I did 8 units
Unit 1 merit
Unit 4 distinction
And the rest I got passes
What would my overall grade be?

By "double btec award level 3 applied science", I assume you're talking about a Pearson BTEC Level 3
National Diploma in Applied Science, given that it's equivalent in size to two A Levels.

Each unit will earn you points, depending on the size of the unit (in guided learning hours, GLH) and the grade you achieved. In the case if external units (the ones with exams), you mark also impacts your points. As you haven't provided you mark, we'll need to use a range. Once we have your points for each unit, we simply add them up to get your overall points and map that to an overall grade.

Unit 1 (external, 90 GLH): A Merit earns you between 15 and 23 points, depending on your mark.
Unit 2 (internal, 90 GLH): A Pass earns you 9 points.
Unit 3 (external, 120 GLH): A Pass earns you between 12 and 19 points, depending on your mark.
Unit 4 (internal, 90 GLH): A Distinction earns you 24 points.
Unit 5 (external, 120 GLH): A Pass earns you between 12 and 19 points, depending on your mark.
Unit 6 (internal, 90 GLH) A Pass earns you 9 points.
Unit 8 (internal, 60 GLH): A Pass earns you 6 points.
Unit X (internal, 60 GLH): A Pass earns you 6 points.

I've listed your final unit as Unit X because it could be anything between Unit 9 and Unit 23 - depending on which option you took; these optional units are all worth the same anyway.

So have somewhere between 93 and 115 points overall, depending on the marks you achieved in the exams for Unit 1, Unit 3 and Unit 5. In terms of grades, this is either an MP and MM. Only with your exam marks can we work out which of these two overall grades you've achieved.

What overall grade were you hoping for?

Reply 2

Izelgulsal

I resat my unit 5 exam because I was 5marks from merit which I will find out results in August. My unit 1 I was 1 mark from a merit but she says it still counts as a merit hence why I put it as merit. Unit 3 I was 3 marks over pass. I really need MM

(edited 9 months ago)

Reply 3

Izelgulsal

Original post by DataVenia

By "double btec award level 3 applied science", I assume you're talking about a Pearson BTEC Level 3
National Diploma in Applied Science, given that it's equivalent in size to two A Levels.
Each unit will earn you points, depending on the size of the unit (in guided learning hours, GLH) and the grade you achieved. In the case if external units (the ones with exams), you mark also impacts your points. As you haven't provided you mark, we'll need to use a range. Once we have your points for each unit, we simply add them up to get your overall points and map that to an overall grade.
Unit 1 (external, 90 GLH): A Merit earns you between 15 and 23 points, depending on your mark.
Unit 2 (internal, 90 GLH): A Pass earns you 9 points.
Unit 3 (external, 120 GLH): A Pass earns you between 12 and 19 points, depending on your mark.
Unit 4 (internal, 90 GLH): A Distinction earns you 24 points.
Unit 5 (external, 120 GLH): A Pass earns you between 12 and 19 points, depending on your mark.
Unit 6 (internal, 90 GLH) A Pass earns you 9 points.
Unit 8 (internal, 60 GLH): A Pass earns you 6 points.
Unit X (internal, 60 GLH): A Pass earns you 6 points.
I've listed your final unit as Unit X because it could be anything between Unit 9 and Unit 23 - depending on which option you took; these optional units are all worth the same anyway.
So have somewhere between 93 and 115 points overall, depending on the marks you achieved in the exams for Unit 1, Unit 3 and Unit 5. In terms of grades, this is either an MP and MM. Only with your exam marks can we work out which of these two overall grades you've achieved.
What overall grade were you hoping for?

Also unit X is unit 21

Reply 4

DataVenia

Volunteer Team, Clearing and Applications Advisor

Original post by Izelgulsal

I resat my unit 5 exam because I was 5marks from merit which I will find out results in August.

OK. As a 120 GLH external unit, your pass would have scored you between 12 and 19 points, with 12 being if you just scraped a pass and 19 being if you were just short of a merit. There's normally a very large gap between the pass boundary and the merit boundary for unit 5. For example, in January 2024 you needed 28/120 for a pass and 51/120 for a merit. That's a a 23-mark difference. If you were 5 marks from a merit, then were 18/23 marks into the "pass" grade (does that make sense?), meaning you'd get 18/23 of the 8 points difference between the 12 points you get for a pass and the 20 points you get for a merit. So your original unit 5 (before the retake) probably got you around 18 points (i.e. towards the top end of the "between 12 and 19 points" range I mentioned above).

Original post by Izelgulsal

My unit 1 I was 1 mark from a merit but she says it still counts as a merit hence why I put it as merit.

That's a reasonable approach.

Original post by Izelgulsal

Unit 3 I was 3 marks over pass.

in January 2024, in Unit 3, you needed 18/60 for a pass and 30/60 for a merit - a difference of 12 marks. So if you were "3 marks over pass" you're 3/12 (or 1/4) of the way through the "pass" grade, meaning you get 1/4 of the points difference. So you likely got about 14 points for this unit, from the "between 12 and 19 points" I mentioned above.

Original post by Izelgulsal

I really need MM

I said above that you "have somewhere between 93 and 115 points overall". Based upon this additional information, my best guess as to your overall mark is around 101. For an MM you need 104 points. However, if your retake of Unit 5 get's you over the Merit boundary then you might just make it. It's very, very, close. :eek: