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NCEA results: Rotorua students pleasantly surprised after challenging year 21 Jan, 2021 05:00 AM 5 minutes to read 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 4 minutes to read 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. ....
123rf The inclusion of a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist in an NCEA Level 2 History exam has raised concerns from students. (File photo) The New Zealand Chinese Association will be formally making a complaint after a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist was included in an NCEA Level 2 history exam. The poem, called Emotional Insanity by anti-Chinese extremist Lionel Terry, was part of an end-of-year history test. The test was about examining “sources of a historical event that is of significance to New Zealanders” and focused on mental health facility Seacliff and included people s experiences there. Terry was an Englishman who handed out pamphlets on racial purity. He is known for murdering Chinese man Joe Kum Yung on Wellington’s Haining St in 1905 ....
The Human Rights Commission launched the Racism is no joke campaign in July 2020. The inclusion of a poem by an anti-Chinese extremist in an NCEA level 2 history exam has students calling for better sourcing from the people making the exams. Cadence Chung, 17, sat her end-of-year history test which was about examining “sources of a historical event that is of significance to New Zealanders”. The exam focused on mental health facility, Seacliff, and included people s experiences there. A poem by Lionel Terry – an English man who handed out pamphlets on racial purity and is known for murdering Chinese man Joe Kum Yung on Wellington’s Haining St in 1905 – called Emotional Insanity was included. ....