Enter your grade counts, compare the distribution with national results and identify the differences worth investigating.
The tutor2u Exam Results Explorer allows teachers to enter a class or department's grade distribution and compare it immediately with the national picture.
No student names are required and the information entered into My results stays in the browser.
Select the correct qualification, subject and exam board, enter the number of students receiving each grade and compare several parts of the distribution rather than looking for a single “above national” or “below national” verdict.
Select GCSE or A-Level.
Then choose the subject, examination board and examination year.
Make sure these match the cohort you are analysing.
Use My results and enter the number of students receiving each grade.
Use numbers of students rather than percentages. The Explorer calculates the distribution.
You can add a label such as:
“Year 11 2026”
“Year 13”
“Set 1”
or “Whole department”.
Look at:
Do not stop when you find the first difference.
Use percentage points.
If your grade 7+ rate is 31% and national is 24%, the department is seven percentage points higher at that threshold.
Then translate that difference into students.
In a cohort of 30, seven percentage points is approximately two students.
It can tell you that your grade profile differs from the published national profile.
It cannot by itself tell you why.
National results do not control for every difference between your students and the national cohort.
Treat the result as evidence for further enquiry.
Examples might be:
Why is our grade 7+ performance strong but grade 4+ closer to national?
Why do we have a larger concentration at grade 3?
Has the same pattern occurred in previous cohorts?
Does question-level analysis help explain it?
Everything can be entered without using student names.
Last checked August 2026. This is a plain-English summary of official guidance; always check the linked Ofqual, JCQ and exam-board pages for the definitive rules, which can change.
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