Student Rosa Watt checked her NCEA results from Brewster Hutt in Mount Aspiring National Park. Photo: Ali Watt
Thousands of teenagers accessed their NCEA results on Wednesday to find out how they performed in end-of-year exams.
The Qualifications Authority said the results available online, covered more than 160,000 students and most, about 144,000, had entered exams.
It said by midday Wednesday, 35,500 students had accessed their results.
Among the more remote students to log in to their results was teenger Rosa Watt, who checked her Level 2 NCEA from Brewster Hut in Mount Aspiring National Park.
Auckland student Aayan Ghoshal told RNZ he was a little nervous about his results but was satisfied with the outcome which included a mix of excellence and merit results across subjects including Chemistry, Physics, English and Maths.
"I definitely felt like I could have done better on Physics and English, but most of that was pretty decent," he said.
Ghoshal said friends and family were interested in his results too.
"This morning a couple of people have texted me, asking me what I got," he said.
"Just before you called, my mum was texting me asking me what I got so I'll message her back after this."
The Qualifications Authority said students' results were currently considered to be provisional.
It said that was because students could request a review or reconsideration of their exam papers, complete further standards through summer school programmes, and schools might submit corrected or late-reported results from internal assessment.
NZQA said it would release high-level provisional attainment data on Friday, once it had been provided to schools.
There would be strong interest in the provisional pass rates as they had dropped every year since a peak in 2020 when extra credits were available to compensate students for disruption caused by covid-related periods of home-based learning.
Principals [. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/535821/45-percent-of-ncea-students-fail-this-year-s-online-literacy-numeracy-tests have warned repeatedly that the introduction of new literacy and maths standards] could also affect pass rates.
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