With Mr Gove throwing his weight around and hammering vocational qualifications it is quite a relief that year 9 pupils who have already started the OCR Nationals course will count in the 2014 performance tables :

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/doc/k/key%20stage%204%20performance%20tables.docx

http://www.ocr.org.uk/news/2012/item_008.aspx

It remains to be seem what will happen with the new Cambridge suite of qualifications and performance tables but because the course is based on the recommendations of the Wolf Report the chances are looking good.