PLR - Functional Skill achievement with grade U?

Is it an AO record or an ILR record? If the latter then it's just a provider using the wrong code for fail...

U is "ungraded", so it's never a pass regardless...

Thanks for the reply Steve, the source is AO and has an 'achieved date' too which seems odd if U is ungraded... 

Usually means "turned up but barely wrote anything" in GCSE/A Level world (whereas X would be "did not turn up"), as you say, unusual to see it on FS rather than just "fail"...

You have to be really careful with PLR data! The AO data has an "Award Date" even if it was a fail (misleading). There are some AO rows of PLR with no grade, and an Award Date, that are actually fails, but you just can't tell! I was going to find an example, but the LRS is down for maintenance.

The ILR data at least has an "Outcome" (though that doesn't appear in the download we do into our MI software), which is useful when there's no grade. In an aim is simply pass/fail, providers aren't actually required to report the grade in the ILR(though most do), just the outcome.