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Digital Assessment: NCEA Online
NZQA is changing how students can do their NCEA exams – from hand-written papers to online, using a PC or laptop. Visit Digital Assessment: NCEA Online to find out more about what's happening, why it's important, and how schools are getting involved.
NCEA on NZQA
The NCEA page on the NZQA website provides several ways to find information about NCEA.
The main links are in the left-hand menu, underneath the NCEA title. Through these headings and subheadings, you can navigate to all information on NCEA.
Important links can also be found directly underneath the images titled NCEA, Subjects, and For teachers near the top of the page.
NCEA
- How NCEA works - video and overview of NCEA.
- NZQA brochures and videos - a range of publications and resources to support student, whānau, and community understanding of NCEA.
- NCEA levels and certificates - credit requirements for each level.
- Examinations timetable for the current year.
Subjects
Subject resources - information about the main resources to support the teaching and learning of NCEA level 1, level 2, and level 3 achievement standards.
Literacy and numeracy - information about NCEA requirements.
Results section and its following sub-sections for students and teachers outline how students can access their results and Records of Achievement, and apply for reviews and reconsiderations.
For teachers
- NCEA publications (including news and updates)
- Secondary school statistics – annual reports on NCEA and Scholarship results for previous years.
- NCEA: The myths - responses to ten common myths about NCEA, for example, regarding the number of credits required per subject, further assessment opportunities and resubmissions.
- Enrolment-based measure of NCEA attainment - information about changes NZQA and the Ministry of Education have made to the way NCEA and University Entrance attainment is measured.
NCEA Subject resources
From the Subject resources page, select your subject. Each subject page contains:
- all the information you will need for externally assessed subjects
- some information for internally assessed standards and links to NCEA on TKI, where you can find more information.
On each subject page you can find:
Curriculum and standards documents
- Standards – Achievement and unit standards available
- Matrices – links to the relevant subject matrices at NCEA on TKI
- Teaching and learning guide on Senior Secondary Guidelines site on TKI.
Resources for internally assessed standards
- Moderator newsletters – stay up to date with the latest developments
- Annotated exemplars of student work
- Clarifications – expanded outlines of expectations to meet the standards
- NCEA on TKI resources and Conditions of assessment – links to the relevant site information.
For some subjects this section may also contain:
- National moderator reports Moderation checklists
- Older resources still in use and made available on NCEA on TKI.
Resources for externally assessed standards
- Assessment specifications – an outline for each of the standards
- Assessment schedules and judgment statements
- Samples for new standards – exam papers and exemplars.
- Scholarship – a link to the Scholarship examination information
- Past Exam papers – papers from previous years (often with exemplar answers)
- Assessment reports
- Exam documents for expired standards – for reference only.
For some subjects this section may also contain:
- Guidelines for assessment of standards
- Submission administration information
- End-of-year assessment instructions.
Other resources
Note: The document types available under each subject area are more fully described near the bottom of the Subject Resources landing page.
Literacy and numeracy
From the NZQA Literacy and numeracy page you can access:
NCEA requirements
Information about NCEA requirements for attaining NCEA through:
University Entrance requirements
- Requirements for gaining University Entrance in New Zealand
- Literacy requirements for University Entrance.
Unit standards assessment resources
- Links to unit standards and related resources including: guidelines, clarifications, exemplars , moderation, and other resources for literacy and numeracy in relation to unit standards.
English for academic purposes: Resources
- English for academic purposes - standards, clarification and exemplars.
Scholarship
Information about New Zealand Scholarship can be found in the Awards section of NZQA website.
The Scholarship subjects page has links to subject specific resources including assessment specifications and resources.
Assessment matters
The Assessment matters section has links to circulars with information about all assessment, operational and logistical matters in relation to secondary qualifications.