NCEA Exams continue this week. Today we have had NCEA Level 2 English, NCEA Level 1 Physics and Earth Space, and Level 3 Physics
Unfortunately, there was an outage of the Assessment Master platform and disruption to the digital NCEA L2 English exam this morning. This outage occurred across the country. The outage was resolved relatively quickly. NZQA are working with the vendor to fully investigate what caused the issues.
We understand that this may have been distressing for students who were completing the online. Digital students were offered the option of continuing their exam on paper as well as extra time. NZQA have already stated that Derived Grades will be available for students who are unable to complete their exam or who were in any way disadvantaged. Derived Grades use the results from the Practice Exams.
Students who completed their exams on paper were unaffected.
We are confident that NZQA will resolve the issue for any future digital exams. However, we will be preparing for all possibilities and will have paper exams ready to go before any NZQA exams next week.
NZQA are working on further mitigations if required and will provide further information as soon as possible. If you or your son have any concerns or questions, please make contact and we will check with NZQA.