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16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores

Approved 16 to 18 qualifications, discount codes and point scores for reporting in the 2018 to 2028 school and college performance measures.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
12 October 2017
Last updated:
2 October 2026
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  1. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2028 performance tables' with changes to the ‘A level in facilitating subject?’ column and discount codes for the following 2028 qualifications: Cambridge OCR Level 3 Alternative Academic Qualification Cambridge Advanced National: Cyber Security (Certificate) and Cyber Security and Networks (Extended Certificate).

  2. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2028 performance tables'. Updates noted in 'changes' tab.

  3. Updated with '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2028 performance tables'.

  4. Replaced ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2025’ with ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 19 performance tables 2026’.

  5. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables' with changes to the discount codes for the following 2027 qualifications: - OCR Level 3 Alternative Academic Qualification Cambridge Advanced National in IT: Data Analytics (Certificate) - OCR Level 3 Alternative Academic Qualification Cambridge Advanced National in IT: Data Analytics (Extended Certificate)

  6. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables'.

  7. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables' with an additional 30 alternative academic qualifications in 2027.

  8. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables'.

  9. Replaced '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2026 performance tables' with '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables'. Replaced ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2024’ with ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2025’.

  10. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2026 performance tables'.

  11. Replaced '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2025 performance tables' with '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2026 performance tables'. Replaced ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2023’ with ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2024’.

  12. Updated the 16 to 18 discounting guidance.

  13. '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2025 performance tables' and 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2023' were updated.

  14. '16 to 18 discounting guidance (2019)' has been replaced with '16 to 18 discounting guidance (2022)'.

  15. Removed T levels tab from '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2024 performance tables'.

  16. We have updated the '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2024 performance tables' and 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2022' documents.

  17. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes' performance tables to cover up to 2024.

  18. Updated ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2023 performance tables’. This includes a new English Language GCSE.

  19. Replaced '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2022 performance tables' with '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2023 performance tables'. Replaced ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2019’ with ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2021’.

  20. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2022 performance tables' to add missing data in 'A level in a facilitating subject’.

  21. Replaced '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2021 performance tables' with '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2022 performance tables' .

  22. Updated to show changes to qualification details and new decisions on inclusions.

  23. Updated 16 to 18 discounting guidance for 2019.

  24. Updated 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2021 performance tables

  25. Updated 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables' for 2019.

  26. Added an updated version of the 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes.

  27. Updated '16 to 18 discounting guidance' for 2018.

  28. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2020 performance tables'.

  29. Updated documents '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2020 performance tables' and 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2018'.

  30. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2020 performance tables'.

  31. Added the updated documents 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 18 performance tables 2018'.

  32. Updated 16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2020 performance tables

  33. Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes' to include information for 2020.

  34. Guidance updated to take into account the 16 to 18 performance tables for 2017.

  35. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

16 to 18 performance measures discounting guidance

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16 to 19 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2028 performance tables

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 722 KB

Performance points for qualifications counting in the 16 to 19 performance tables 2026

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 195 KB

Details

This information is for:

  • awarding organisations
  • schools
  • colleges

This page contains information on discount codes and point scores for qualifications included in school and college performance measures.

We use discount codes to ensure that a single course of study is credited only once in school and college performance measures. The discounting guidance describes how we do this.

We use performance points to compare qualifications of different levels, sizes and grading structures. The points assigned to each qualification are shown in the point scores document. For more information on how performance points are determined, refer to our guidance on performance points.

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