This is by design. RM Unify normalises the year of entry for students so that different app providers can interpret the year of entry from different schools in different ways. For example, a year of entry of 2022 in a primary school could mean the student is in year 1, but a year of entry of 2022 in a secondary school can mean the student is in year 7. If we simply pass the actual '2022' year of entry to apps, the provider has no way of interpreting whether the student is in year 1 or year 7.

By normalising the year of entry, we generate a unique year of entry regardless of what the start year is for a school. To normalise we assume a base year of year 1 and then apply an offset. In the examples above:

1. Students in the primary school with an actual year of entry 2022 get a normalised year of entry of '2022' i.e. they equal the base year of year 1 and so no offset is applied.
2. Students in the secondary school with an actual year of entry 2022 get a normalised year of entry '2016' i.e. if they started year 7 in 2022 then they must have started year 1 six years earlier, hence 2016.

Please see TEC4023792 in Other Useful Articles below, which gives some examples.