Importing your Exam Results
Exam Results imports are reserved for the End of Year examination grades that your students receive on Results Day. Any other grades should be entered as a monitoring point. You will be able to import these Exam Results on or before results day (during the JCQ embargo period).
This is the data you need for this import:
Student ID, Subject Name, Grade and Series (this is the season when the student is sitting their final examinations e.g. Summer 2025).
Short video on importing results
Full step by step guide on importing results
The first step to importing your results is to click on the Data Management section from the homepage and then click 'Cohorts':
Once you're in the cohorts section, click on where it says 'Gradepoints' on the left-hand side.
Before importing your exam results, you need to make sure you have at least imported your Student Data and Prior Attainment data.
If your 24/25 workspace looks like the screenshot below, then you will be able to import your exam results (teaching data and personalised targets are optional imports, you don't have to import these in order to import your exam results, even though the screenshot below has them imported):
Once you're in the Gradepoints section, you should see the Add Exam Results button. Please click this to open the import:
After you have opened the import, please select which key stage you want to import results for:
Once you've selected your key stage, click 'Next' in the bottom right-hand corner and then prepare your data in Excel.
If you use SIMS, you can use the report definitions to export your results from SIMS into Excel. You can download these report definitions from the second step of the import:
If you use iSAMS, you can use the report definitions found here.
Those report definitions will export your data into Excel so you can import the data into Alps.
If you don't use any of the MIS' mentioned, then that's fine, as the only thing that matters is that your data is in Excel in a format that is accepted by Alps:
Your data can either be in a row per entry format:
Or in a marksheet format:
Whichever format you're using, you need to make sure you choose the correct option from the 3rd step of the import:
Then import your data, either by dragging and dropping your file into the top box, or copy and pasting your data into the bottom box:
Then, map your columns. You only need the Student ID, Subject Name, Grade and Series columns for this import:
Map any subject names you need to map:
Fix any errors - if you have grade errors this article will show you how to resolve them: Grade Errors
Then finish the import on the final step by clicking Finish in the bottom right-hand corner:
Finally, click on the check and publish button on the exam results Gradepoint:
Then click publish in the bottom right:
Then click publish in the window that opens in the middle of the screen:
Once published, your Gradepoint will be Green and it will say 'Live for users' - this means whoever has the early access privilege will be able to see the exam results in Alps during the JCQ embargo period, and all users will be able to see the results on results day.
Publishing your Gradepoint will automatically generate your end of year PDF report - you will be able to download this from the My Reports section once it is ready.
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