Qualifications

NCEA Requirements

Level 1 NCEA

To be awarded a Level 1 Certificate you need to achieve:

  • 80 credits at Level 1 or higher, including 10 literacy credits, and 10 numeracy credits

Level 2 NCEA

To be awarded a Level 2 Certificate you need to:

  • Achieve 60 credits at Level 2 or above, and

  • Achieve 20 credits at level 1 or above (these can be credits that counted towards your Level 1 Certificate), and

  • Have met the Level 1 Literacy and Numeracy requirements.

Level 3 NCEA

To be awarded a Level 3 Certificate you need to:

  • Achieve 60 credits at Level 3 or above, and

  • Achieve 20 at Level 2 or above, and

  • Have met the Level 1 Literacy and Numeracy requirements.

University Entrance

To achieve University Entrance you will need all of the following:

  • NCEA Level 3

  • 14 credits at level three in each of three subjects from the list of approved subjects.

  • Level 1 numeracy

  • UE literacy - 10 credits (five in reading and five in writing) at Level 2 and above from specific standards.

New Zealand Scholarship.

New Zealand Scholarship provides recognition and monetary reward to top students in Year 13. Scholarship assessments enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject. Assessment is by either a written/spoken examination or by the submission of a portfolio or report of work produced throughout the year.

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

About 3 per cent of Year 13 students studying each subject at Level 3 are awarded Scholarship, if they reach the standard that has been set.

For more information about New Zealand Scholarship see your teachers, your Dean or the Principal’s Nominee.