The resultant vector is a single vector that would have the same effect as several individual vectors combined, The resultant vector is found by finding the sum of these individual vectors.
In GCSE Mathematics, individual vectors may be used to describe how to 'travel' along a particular side of a two-dimensional shape; if we then wanted to describe how to 'travel' from one point on the shape to another (not necessarily at a vertex), we would require a combination of these vectors; this would be the resultant vector.
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