KS4: Discounting and Early Entry Guidance, Approved Qualifications, Discount Codes and Performance Point scores

The link below provides access to a handy list of guidance documents on the DfE's website, such as:

• Key stage 4 discounting and early entry guidance

Overview of the discounting and early entry rules for Exams for the KS4 cohorts.

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

You can use this to check an approved qualification's performance points (the points associated to each grade) via the DfE's performance points spreadsheets, usually released for each cohort, each year.

This can come in useful when creating grade methods in KS4 of Analytics, to ensure you have entered the correct Attainment 8 points for each grade.

• Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes

A list of approved qualifications separated by reporting cohort and their discount codes. This can be handy to search in order to check if a qualification your student's are taking is approved for that cohort, and therefore would count towards performance tables / measures.