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 2027 school and college performance measures.
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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, seerefer to our separate guidance on performance points.
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Updated '16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables'.
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2026-06-16 13:24
Updated with ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2028 performance tables’.
2026-06-10 16:58
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’.
2025-11-13 09:55
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)
2025-10-22 14:17
Updated ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables’.
2025-09-15 14:42
Updated ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables’ with an additional 30 alternative academic qualifications in 2027.
2025-07-10 14:56
Updated ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2027 performance tables’.
2025-04-09 12:23
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’.
2024-12-03 16:05
Updated ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2026 performance tables’.
2024-04-11 08:11
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’.
2023-04-05 14:30
‘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.
2022-09-28 17:07
‘16 to 18 discounting guidance (2019)’ has been replaced with ‘16 to 18 discounting guidance (2022)’.
2022-09-07 11:41
Removed T levels tab from ‘16 to 18 qualifications and discount codes: 2018 to 2024 performance tables’.
2022-05-19 10:59
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.