NCEA co-requisite standards 

A guide for students & whānau 2024 - 2025 link here

The significant reform of NCEA is made up of seven key change areas. One of the areas seeks to:

• Strengthen literacy and numeracy requirements and assessments – ensure students with an NCEA have functional literacy and numeracy skills that will ready them to transition into tertiary education or the workplace.

New standards that assess foundational skills in literacy, numeracy, te reo matatini, and pāngarau are being introduced from 2024.

Steps to strengthen NCEA aim to support all learners to succeed in their next steps in learning, life, and work:

• Literacy | Reading - Read written texts to understand ideas and information

• Numeracy - Use mathematics and statistics to meet the numeracy demands of a range of situations

The new standards are designed for learners that have control of Curriculum Level 4 and are ready to work at Level 5. The key staff leading these assessments make a judgement (informed by other testing data) if they think a learner is ready to sit the assessment. 

• There will be a Common Assessment Activity (CAA) for each standard i.e all students nationally do the same tests.

• They will be sat at school, online in a classroom using a device. 

• The  assessments dates for 2025 will be communicated to students.

• Assessments must take place on the set day, so absent students will miss out on sitting the assessment at this time.

• Each assessment should take approximately 60 minutes. However, if more time is needed, that is fine.

• There is no financial cost to sit these standards.