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NZ Exam System (NCEA)
May 13, 2005 - 08:09 AM
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In NZ there has been a big debacle over the NCEA system, which is a system of assessment which has just been implemented and is really controversial at the moment because the NZQA mucked up the scholarship exams, in that in some subjects a quarter of the people sitting scholarship achieved scholarship, but in other subjects only 10 people achieved it. We don't work on a percentage system any more-you get A, M, or E (Achieved, Merit, or Excellence) in Level 1, 2 and 3 of NCEA which is 5th, 6th and 7th form level and you get something like "Outstanding Performance" for Schol, which means you get the scholarship or you don't.
Also what I don't think is fair is that they've split subjects into "Achievement Standards" so you have like 5 seperate papers in exams, but if you're only doing part of the subject they still give you a whole 3 hours to complete it, which isn't very fair coz it's like 3 hours on one half-hour paper. There's different times recommended for each section.
But anyway it was quite confused, and they ended up awarding some people 'certificates of distinction' because they basically screwed it up a bit. There has now been a lot of complaining from students because they are the ones affected, because there's all this bad press about NCEA.
Hopefully they'll fix the faults soon.
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