Week 9 provided a respite from regularly scheduled classes as students focussed on their derived grade exams, sitting the NCEA Literacy/Numeracy Corequisite CAAs, attending subject specific workshops to work on portfolio or project based internals or completing internal assessment work at home. While the school was quieter than usual, a lot of learning and assessment occurred throughout this exam week with Te Rangimāreikura being thronged with deeply concentrating students for each of the morning and afternoon exam slots.
Not only do the practice exams provide an opportunity to receive valuable feedback prior to the end of the year externals, but they also provide a backstop grade if ākonga are unable to sit the end of year exams for one of these reasons:
a temporary acute illness or injury
a significantly disturbing or distressing experience
a sudden and significant change to a chronic illness that happens no more than 1 week before the student’s first affected assessment
national representation in a sport, academic or cultural event.
If your student sat a Literacy or Numeracy CAA during this week, the results and Assessment Feedback (for those who did not achieve) will be made available on December 5 via their MyNZQA learner login
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