NCEA results will release today

The nervous wait for NCEA exam results is almost over for the nearly 140,000 candidates who sat exams at the end of 2008, with results notices due to be delivered from Today (15 January).

Students must be registered to check their results online and can do this via the website at: http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/login.html

For the first time, result notices will include Not Achieved results for internally assessed standards. Previously, only external Not Achieved results appeared on the results notice.

Certificate Endorsement

• of 48773 candidates gaining NCEA level 1, 11327, or 23.2% (22.9% last year), will receive endorsement with Merit and 2896, or 5.9% (5.2%), will gain NCEA level 1 with Excellence
• of 40229 candidates gaining NCEA level 2, 6803 or 16.9% (16.9%), will receive endorsement with Merit and 1660, or 4.1% (3.8%), will gain NCEA level 2 with Excellence
• of 21729 candidates gaining NCEA level 3, 4464 or 20.5% (20.9%) with Merit and 1063 or 4.8% (4.2%) will gain NCEA level 3 with Excellence.

NZQA Deputy Chief Executive Qualifications Bali Haque said these results were consistent with last year's results.

Marked NCEA papers will be returned to candidates from Wednesday 21 January onwards. These will be delivered progressively over the following fortnight.

New Zealand Scholarship results will be delivered in mid-February.

National NCEA statistics will be available on the NZQA website by April.