Nervous students await their NCEA results
Relief mixed with a touch of disappointment for one Wellington High School student when he saw his NCEA results for the first time.
Luke Roeven was among the thousands who went online yesterday to check their NCEA results after they became available from 7am. About 10,000 students logged in during the first 30 minutes.
It was Roeven’s first time checking his results, having sat Level 1 NCEA in year 11 last year.
The high-achieving student was more excited than nervous about seeing his results, as well as a little concerned about the notoriously difficult MCAT algebra exam.
‘‘I feel like I’m going to do pretty well,’’ he said of the maths exam before seeing the results.
But he was less sure about his aural music exam, which had been difficult, fearing he would get a ‘‘not achieved’’ grade.
Hunched over his laptop, scrolling through the results led to some disappointment in an English exam, and relief that he had passed his music test and gained excellence on the MCAT exam.
‘‘They’re pretty good results,’’ Roeven said after gaining excellence endorsements in maths, computer science, English and science.
Roeven had, like many thousands of NCEA students, been affected by the earthquake that struck on November 14.
It meant that he was unable to sit the Level 1 science exam. But he had done well in his practice exam earlier in the year, which was used to create an emergency grade.
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) said more than 20,000 students had to have emergency grades submitted on their behalf following Kaikoura’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake.
The total amount of emergency grades submitted by 89 schools was 85,403. Of those, 31,652 were used in place of, or in absence of, an exam result.
NZQA also received applications from 2400 students for derived grades, 97 per cent of which were approved. A derived grade could be applied for if a student was unable to make an exam through illness or misadventure, or if their study was hindered in preparing for an exam.