Endorsement and Scholarship

Certificate Endorsement

Students studying towards NCEA at Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 are able to achieve their qualifications with Merit or Excellence endorsements. If a student gains 50 credits at Excellence their NCEA will be endorsed with Excellence. If a student gains

50 credits at Merit (or a mix of Merit and Excellence) their NCEA will be endorsed with Merit.

Course Endorsement

Students are also able to achieve a course endorsement. If, in a single year, a student gains 14 or more credits at Merit and or Excellence in a particular course, they will gain endorsement for that course. At least three credits must be from externally assessed standards and three from internally assessed standards (except for Physical Education and Level 3 Visual Arts).

Scholarship

New Zealand Scholarship provides recognition and monetary reward to top students in their last year of schooling. New Zealand Scholarship assessments enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject. Assessment is either a written/spoken examination or by the submission of a portfolio or report of work produced through out the year.

Scholarship candidates are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, uinderstanding and ideas to complex situations

For more information refer to the NZQA website, www.nzqa.govt.nz