How grades are calculated

T Level Awarding

Students who meet the required elements of their T Level will be awarded an overall grade,
in the form of a Pass, Merit, Distinction or Distinction*.

T Level grades are worked out from students’ grades for the Technical Qualification (TQ)
Core and Occupational Specialisms. These are presented as look-up tables. To ensure
fairness, the tables are slightly different for different T Levels depending on the relative size of the
Core Component and Occupational Specialisms.

• There will be just one look up table for each T Level
• And there will always be the same instances of each grade available in each look up
  table: six Passes, six Merits, five Distinctions and one Distinction*
• To be awarded a Distinction*, the student must achieve an A* in the Core and a
  Distinction in the Occupational Specialism(s)

Relative sizes of wave 1 TQ components

The component sizes and proportions for the first TQs are as follows:

T Level grading look-up tables 

Based on the proportions of components, the look up tables will be as follows: