4 April 2024
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2026 performance tables' and 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2024 key stage 4 performance tables'.
28 September 2023
Replaced 2022 version of 'Key stage 4 discounting and early entry guidance' with the 2023 version.
17 April 2023
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2025 performance tables'.
5 April 2023
'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2023 key stage 4 performance tables' and 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2025 performance tables' have been updated.
6 October 2022
'Key stage 4 discounting and early entry guidance (2022)' has replaced 'Key stage 4 discounting and early entry guidance (2019)'.
12 August 2022
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2024 performance tables', amending OCR Level 1/Level 2 Cambridge National in Engineering Manufacture qualification from its current discount code to the previous code.
22 July 2022
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2024 performance tables' - ABRSM music qualifications update of qualification numbers and titles.
19 May 2022
We have updated the 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2022 key stage 4 performance tables' and 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2024 performance tables' documents.
10 December 2021
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes' performance tables to cover up to 2024.
10 August 2021
Updated ‘Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2023 performance tables’. This includes a new English Language GCSE.
6 April 2021
Replaced 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2022 performance tables' with 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2023 performance tables'. Replaced ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2019 key stage 4 performance tables’ with ‘Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2021 key stage 4 performance tables’.
27 November 2020
Added link to national, regional and local authority level statistics, including changes to how key stage 4 discounting is calculated for 2020, after the government announced that all exams were cancelled for 2020.
19 May 2020
Replaced 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables' with 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2022 performance tables'.
5 November 2019
Updated Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables.
31 October 2019
Updated to show changes to qualification details and new decisions on inclusions.
14 October 2019
Added 'Key stage 4 discounting and early entry guidance' for 2019.
31 July 2019
Updated Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables
17 April 2019
Added updated document 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2019 key stage 4 performance tables'.
19 March 2019
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2021 performance tables'.
15 March 2019
Added an updated version of the list of 2014 to 2021 key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes.
4 December 2018
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables'.
3 October 2018
Replaced 2017 version of 'KS4 discounting and early entry guidance' with the 2018 version.
28 September 2018
Updated documents 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables' and 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2018 key stage 4 performance tables'.
16 August 2018
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables'.
21 June 2018
Added updated documents 'Performance points for qualifications counting in the 2018 key stage 4 performance tables'.
13 June 2018
Attached updated version of 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes - 2014 to 2020 performance tables' to add 3 qualifications which had been omitted from the original document.
7 June 2018
Updated Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables
29 March 2018
Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables corrected: 1) 2019 tab row 597, column F, discount code amended from XA1 to XA. Footnote of 2 removed in column J.
2) 2020 tab row 489, column F, discount code amended from XA1 to XA. Footnote of 2 removed in column J.
3) Footnote text for footnote of 2 removed from 2020 tab as no other qual had this flag.
27 March 2018
Updated 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2019 performance tables' to include 2020: 'Key stage 4 qualifications and discount codes: 2014 to 2020 performance tables'.
25 January 2018
Updated with new information about the 2017 data.
27 October 2017
Update to key stage 4 qualifications spreadsheet to finalise discount codes.
12 October 2017
First published.