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The NCEA Blues

Child number two has recently received her NCEA level 2 results and while she passed everything it took us a long time to figure out the actual outcome of the results.
English was the bugbear. She ended up with 12 credits and out of a possible 24; so she passed 50 percent of the unit [...]

Humour in HB

Heh

Apparently some consultant from MWH doesn’t find it amusing…..http://www.stuff.co.nz/4818532a4560.html
Yeah watch out if this keeps happening a wave of smiles may spread across New Zealand.
I’m afraid I have to put this in the Very Well Done basket.

NCEA encouraging minimum targets?

Stuff has just reported that “thousands of students will pass without… entering the exam room”
This sounds fine on the face of it but in actual fact there is a growing trend for the students to do just enough to pass because that is all you need; that’s what NCEA encourages.
These quotes from theĀ ChairmanĀ of the Canterbury-Westland [...]