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NCEA results: Rotorua students pleasantly surprised after challenging year
21 Jan, 2021 05:00 AM
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Students around New Zealand logged on to find out their NCEA results on Thursday. Photo / Getty Images
Students around New Zealand logged on to find out their NCEA results on Thursday. Photo / Getty Images
From being a bundle of nerves to totally caught by surprise - Rotorua students rushed to their computers to check their NCEA exam results yesterday. Results were released early on Thursday for more than 9000 Bay of Plenty students who sat NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship exams last year.
Rotorua Girls High School Year 13 student Hope Waaka-Smith was nervous as she rushed to log on to see how she had done in her most challenging year of school yet, she told the Rotorua Daily Post.
Bundles of nerves: Thousands of Tauranga students check NCEA results
21 Jan, 2021 05:00 AM
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Otumoetai College student Megan Sushames, 14, was up early this morning to check her first ever NCEA exam results. Photo / Supplied
Otumoetai College student Megan Sushames, 14, was up early this morning to check her first ever NCEA exam results. Photo / Supplied
When 14-year-old Otumoetai College student Megan Sushames turned up to her Level 2 NCEA calculus exam, other students asked if she was lost. The Year 9 student was not lost. She s a mathematics whizz and was ready to sit her first NCEA exam years before her peers would.
Auckland schools boast best-ever NCEA results - have we been too generous?
21 Jan, 2021 05:50 AM
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Mt Albert Grammar School headmaster Patrick Drumm: We are absolutely delighted. These are easily the best results we have ever had. Photo / Dean Purcell
Mt Albert Grammar School headmaster Patrick Drumm: We are absolutely delighted. These are easily the best results we have ever had. Photo / Dean Purcell
Exam results in some Auckland schools have jumped - raising questions over whether bonus credits awarded because of the Covid-19 lockdowns were too generous.
Mt Albert Grammar School headmaster Patrick Drumm said pass rates in all three levels of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) were the best we ve ever had .