{"id":231165,"date":"2026-01-13T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:20:09","slug":"ncea-exam-results-can-be-accessed-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231165\/","title":{"rendered":"NCEA exam results can be accessed from today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/4K2ZYH8_ncea_bw_png.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Composite graphic of education imagery. Education, schools, students, curriculum, NCEA, learning, books.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPhoto: RNZ\n<\/p>\n<p>More than 150,000 students in New Zealand, Niue and the Cook Islands can access their NCEA exam results today.<\/p>\n<p>They can log into the Qualifications Authority&#8217;s website to see how they went.<\/p>\n<p>The authority said students would be able to access their marked NCEA exam papers from 20 January.<\/p>\n<p>It said scholarship exam results and papers would be available from 10 February.<\/p>\n<p>The authority said students who found they had too few credits for an NCEA certificate should talk to their school or to Te Kura the Correspondence School.<\/p>\n<p>It said students could request a review or reconsideration if they believed their answer booklet had not been marked correctly or results were not recorded accurately.<\/p>\n<p>NZQA said students who had misplaced their National Student Number and password should use Awhina, NZQA&#8217;s online chatbot, or contact its contact centre on 0800 697 296.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 results will be closely watched due to some principals&#8217; fears that high-stakes literacy and numeracy requirements will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/567255\/principals-fear-increase-in-students-from-poor-communities-leaving-school-without-qualifications\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dent pass rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Results from last year&#8217;s literacy and numeracy tests indicated students&#8217; from poor communities were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/577214\/students-from-poor-schools-had-much-worse-ncea-maths-and-literacy-test-results-than-others\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less likely to pass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The government is moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/568917\/explainer-what-s-replacing-ncea-and-how-to-have-your-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">replace NCEA with a new qualification<\/a> that would be phased in from 2028-2030.<\/p>\n<p>If the government stuck to its timetable, this year&#8217;s Year 10 cohort would be the last group to use NCEA and this year&#8217;s Year 9&#8217;s the first to use the new qualification.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ More than 150,000 students in New Zealand, Niue and the Cook Islands can access their NCEA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-231165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}