Electrical/Electronic Engineering (Triple Award) BTEC National Extended Diploma Level 3

Applications Open: 21st November 2025 (9.00am)

Applications Close: 13th February 2026 (4.00pm)

How to apply:

- All INTERNAL applicants MUST apply via Applicaa using this link (coming soon!)

- All EXTERNAL applicants MUST apply via Kent Choices using this link https://www.kentprospectus.co.uk/login

- All correspondence between learners and the school after an application is made will be via Applicaa.

- All applicants (internal and external) will be invited in for a 1-1 guidance meeting.

- Those who have a successful guidance meeting will be offered a place to study at St John's Sixth Form from September 2026.

The BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Engineering is a Technical qualification. This qualification has been designed as a two-year, full-time course for learners wanting to progress to employment in electrical and electronic engineering, such as a power engineering technician. Learners gain relevant skills and knowledge from studying a range of units, for example in electronic devices and circuits, power and energy systems, printed circuit board design and manufacture, microcontrollers and/or calculus. Learning is achieved through the completion of projects and assignments based on realistic workplace situations, activities and demands. The course will require elements of home study and some assessments will take the form of examinations.

• Unit 1 – Engineering Principles (written exam)

• Unit 2 – Delivery of Engineering Processes safely as team

• Unit 3 – Engineering Product Design & Manufacture (written exam)

• Unit 4 – Applied Commercial & Quality Principles in Engineering

• Unit 5 – A Specialist Engineering Project

• Unit 6 - Microcontroller Systems for Engineers (written exam)

• Unit 7 - Calculus to Solve Engineering Problems

Optional Units:

• Unit 19 – Electronic Devices & Circuits

• Unit 14 – Electrical Installation of Hardware and Cables

• Unit 22 – Electronic Printed Circuit Board Design and Manufacture

• Unit 20 - Analogue Electronic Circuits

• Unit 21 - Electronic Measurement and Testing of Circuits

• Unit 41 – Secondary Machining Processes

• Unit 23 - Digital and Analogue Electronic Systems

• Unit 35 - Computer Programming

The new BTEC Nationals use a combination of assessment styles – both internal and external.

• Unit 1: Engineering Principles (Mandatory unit) two-hour examination including a mix of short and long-answer problem-solving questions

• Unit 3: Engineering Product Design and Manufacture (Mandatory unit)

A supervised written assessment task completed within 10 hours over a three-week period. Learners will be provided with a case study in order to carry out research for a two-week period, during the task and they will be required to follow a standard development process of interpreting a brief, scoping initial design ideas, preparing a design proposal and evaluating their proposal. The remainder of the course will be assessed by coursework units internally verified by your teachers and externally moderated by the examination board.

A minimum of 5 subjects at GCSE Grade 4/BTEC Level 2 Pass or higher:

Including

- Grade 4 in GCSE English Language or Literature.

- Grade 5 in GCSE Mathematics

In order to take the Triple Award you MUST choose the Single and Double Award

The Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma in Engineering is for learners who want to pursue a career in engineering, and who want to be able to collaborate across and apply knowledge, skills and understanding in other branches of engineering. They can either progress directly to an apprenticeship or employment as an engineering technician or can choose to progress to higher education to study for an engineering degree. The qualification is equivalent in size to three A Levels at 1080 GLH and is intended to be a Tech Level qualification. It has also been designed to meet the Tech Bacc measure when studied alongside Level 3 mathematics and the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ).

This qualification is recognised by higher education providers as contributing to meeting admission requirements for many relevant courses in a variety of areas of the engineering sector, for example:

BEng (Hons) in Engineering, BEng (Hons) in Electronics Engineering, BEng (Hons) in Aerospace Engineering, BSc (Hons) in Computer Science, BSc (Hons) in Mathematics.