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NCEA Information Evening

NCEA Information Evening. WELCOME EVERYONE. How does NCEA work?. NCEA is achievement based, not percentage based When students achieve these standards they can earn credits towards their NCEA qualification Students gain credits in a standard with Achieved, Merit or Excellence.

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NCEA Information Evening

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  1. NCEA Information Evening WELCOME EVERYONE

  2. How does NCEA work? • NCEA is achievement based, not percentage based • When students achieve these standards they can earn credits towards their NCEA qualification • Students gain credits in a standard with Achieved, Merit or Excellence

  3. What are Standards? • Standards describe the skills and knowledge a student must attain for assessment purposes. • Standards include a range of difficulty in skill. The requirements for Excellence are more academically demanding. • Standards are either internally or externally assessed.

  4. Standards and Credits Each subject offers between 3 and 8 standards Each standard is worth a number of credits (usually between 2 and 12) The number of credits reflects the amount of time it takes to teach that standard

  5. Internal Assessments These are either completed in class or at home. If done at home, there will be progress checks and an authenticity statement must be signed. Students must be in class when an internal assessment is scheduled

  6. Extensions for Internal Assessments

  7. For a student to be awarded NCEA Level 1, they must achieve: • 80 credits • 10 credits must be from standards classified as literacy standards. (Many standards are in this category.) • 10 credits from standards classified as numeracy standards. (Very few standards outside of Mathematics count towards numeracy.)

  8. For a student to be awarded NCEA Level 2, they must achieve: • 80 credits: • 60 must be at Level 2 or above • Literacy Level 2: • 5 literacy credits in reading from specified standards • 5 literacy credits in writing from specified standards

  9. For a student to be awarded NCEA Level 3, they must achieve: • 80 credits: • 60 must be at Level 3 or above • 20 may be from Level 2 standards

  10. NCEA Course Endorsement • Year 11, 12 and 13 courses may be endorsed with Merit or Excellence if students meet the required standard. • For instance, a student may get: Mathematics with Merit, or Economics with Excellence

  11. NCEA Course Endorsement • To be eligible for a Merit endorsement a student must have 14 credits at Merit or higher in his or her course. • To be eligible for a Excellence endorsement the rules are the same but the credits must be at Excellence. • At least three of these credits must be internally assessed and at least three must be externally assessed. • In Physical Education and Level 3 Visual Arts all fourteen credits may be internally assessed.

  12. NCEA Certificate Endorsement A student’s overall NCEA qualification will also have an endorsement if he or she achieves 50 credits at Merit or Excellence. For instance, if he or she gets 50 credits at Merit or higher at Level 1, the certificate received will be NCEA Level 1 with Merit.

  13. University Entrance To gain University Entrance students must have: • NCEA Level 3 • Numeracy (10 credits at Level 1) • Literacy (5 specified reading credits and 5 specified writing credits from Level 2) • Three university approved subjects at Level 3 with at least 14 credits in each

  14. Acceptance into University • University Entrance allows students to apply for a university degree course • In addition, many universities require “points” for entry into a specific course • Points are accrued from approved subjects with: • 2 points for each Achieved credit • 3 points for each Merit credit • 4 points for each Excellence credit • Only the best 80 credits are counted • Points required vary from 140-270

  15. Appeal of External Assessment Results Reviews: • Students may request a review of external assessment material if they consider a processing error has been made Reconsiderations: • Students may apply for reconsideration of a standard if they believe that their work has not been assessed correctly and they wish to have it re-marked • A $20.00 fee applies per standard. This will be refunded if the reconsideration is successful

  16. NCEA Results • Students are able to log on to the NZQA website and view their internally assessed results throughout the year. • Students can also check the external standards for which they are entered. • In January NZQA releases electronic results to students for the past year’s internal and external assessments. • A printed result notice will only be posted if requested via the NZQA website prior to 1 December

  17. NZQA Fees • There are now no fees for domestic students • International students pay NCEA fees, but they are included in their overall school fees

  18. Online Links • All NCEA standards can be viewed at www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea • Examples of internal assessments can be viewed at www.tki.org.nz • Past external exam papers can be found on the NZQA website by searching for each standard

  19. NCEA Information Evening Thank you for attending The next presentations will be on the options selection process

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