A BTec, which stands for the Business and Technology Education Council, is a practical qualification. Courses are assessed through exams, regular coursework and projects, and sometimes placements.

MINISTERS are facing growing calls to cancel vocational exams. Further education leaders have voiced concerns over students’ safety and say it was not fair that A-levels and GCSEs have been postponed.

About 170,000 students have received their results for BTec Tech Awards, BTec Firsts and BTec Level 2 Technical courses. But what are BTecs, and how are they marked? Here is everything you need to ...