Hobsonville Point Secondary School Maurie Abraham shares his concerns about the NCEA curriculum. / Greg Bowker Exasperated maths teachers are drafting a letter of complaint after a major exam left ...

Some top maths students have been reduced to tears by questions in a Level 1 maths exam which teachers say required Level 2 knowledge. One mother said her daughter was "a top maths student at a top ...

Concern over a quarter of new primary teachers not passing NCEA Level 1 maths. The Institute of Economic Research has analysed NCEA achievement of those starting between 2017 and 2022. It found more ...

The exam has sparked an open letter by maths teachers to the NZ Qualifications Authority complaining that the exam was too hard for Level 1 of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA ...

Sarah Atkinson and Tenika Dudson were both pleased. Good maths students appear to have passed last year's controversial Level 1 maths exam, despite concerns expressed by 118 maths teachers. The NZ ...

READ ALL INSTRUCTIONS: Yes, the team of numerically-minded sadists that last year freaked out teenagers from Kaitaia to Bluff is back, so strap in. There are a total of SEVEN questions over FOUR pages ...

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The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is defending the difficulty of NCEA exam questions for students trying to achieve excellence endorsements this year. The authority said it had received ...

The examinations authority stands by its maths exam, which has been described as "absolutely absurd" New Zealand's education minister has ordered an investigation into an examination paper which ...