According to data from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, fewer students than in the three years prior entered the exam with NCEA credits.
According to the Qualifications Authority, schools had documented an average of 50.4 credits for each of their NCEA students by the end of November
the majority of them for assessments finished before exams started.
The average credit score at this time last year was 50.5, in 2020 it was 52.8, and in 2019, the year before the epidemic started, it was 56.6.
At Levels 2 and 3, students may earn up to eight "learning recognition credits," and at Level 1
they could earn up to ten. These credits were provided at a rate of one for every five points that students had earned through assessment.
Students started the end-of-year test session with a comparable number of credits as in 2019
According to Andrea Gray, deputy chief executive of the NZQA Assessment.
After Covid-19's disruption earlier in the year, "this shows the efforts of teachers and students to catch up on lost teaching, learning, and assessment opportunities," she said.