NCEA subject resources

Subject resource pages are available for the following subjects.

Accounting French Physical Education
Agriculture & Horticulture Geography Physics
Art History German Psychology
Biology Graphics Religious Studies
Business Studies Health Samoan
Chemistry History Science
Chinese Home Economics Social Studies
Classical Studies Information Management Sociology
Computing Japanese Spanish
Dance Latin Te Reo Māori
Drama Legal Studies Te Reo Rangatira
Economics Mathematics Technology
Education for Sustainability Media Studies Visual Arts
English Music  
Literacy and Numeracy (resources to assist with evidence gathering)

Each NCEA subject resource page may include some or all of the following types of documents:

Assessment Report An overview of the performance of the exam candidates in the subject or standard.
Assessment Schedule The markers' guide - what was accepted, or looked for in candidate answers - the 'correct' answers, as it were. Needs to be read in association with the Judgement Statement.
Assessment Specification Defines how the assessment will occur - how long the exam will be, or other submission - and the format of the assessment - long or short answer or multi-choice questions, essays, number of questions, or, for submitted work, the nature of the work to be submitted
Exam Paper
The set of questions to be answered by candidates in the exam room. In some cases there will be a single document; in others there may be separate documents.
Exemplar An actual student answer script, with annotations from the marker indicating why the script was assessed in the way it was.
Judgement Statement
Defines how the different levels of performance were separated from each other - for example that 4 correct elements means Achievement; 6 means Achievement with Merit, and so on.
National Moderator Report
The National Moderators Report contains summary comments from the national moderator to give guidance to asssessors for internally assessed standards.
The Standard
(Unit or Achievement)
Defines the learning outcomes (what the learner will be able to do, or explain, or demonstrate, or understand, etc), as well as the assessment criteria - how it will be assessed, and usually the topics for which external assessment will occur.

New content will be added as it is developed or becomes available.

NZQA thanks the students who have allowed their work to be published as exemplars.

Standards and previous exam documents (and associated reports, schedules, etc.) are also available through Search NCEA standards.

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