Us young 'uns NCEA results...

[alexthekidd]

Jeeez i thought my Excellence in L1 History was incredible but that takes the cake Jeremy!

[Nasty]

Well done guys ... not that long ago when I was in school and don't understand any of these results .. but excellance I certainly understand ...

[yungatart]

Well done to our bright yunguns! Congratulations on the work you put in and the grades you achieved!

[vifferman]

Now I can understand why employers don't bother with NCEA results these days, bring back the old School C

We scrutinised our youngun's results, and couldn't work out what they meant: had he passed, or failed? The result forms are blardy confusing!

Apparently he'd passed (or so our Committee of Five decided), so we congratulated him (albeit somewhat hesitantly and noncommittally).

He DID get 100% for attendance, which he was rather embarrassed about...

[Jamezo]

Yay, I got into Canterbury!

My grades were alright, so it wasn't unexpected:

comp102 - A
comp103 - A
phys114 - A
phys115 -B
math113 (calculus) - A-
math114 (linear algebra and DM) - B+
tech102 - special pass cause I sat the exam late lawl! Would have got an A++++ based on my exam marks.

[Ixion]

Garrggh. Now you have confused me, just as I was beginning to see some light, albeit through a glass, darkly. Everyone else is talking about Ms and Ns and as which aren't As at all but are really Cs or maybe Ds (except when they're Bs).

But you appear to be using a logical and sensible system , like what we had before ???? How does B+ fit in with the Ms and Ns ?

Year 10 is form four - year 11 is form 5, but you are right about him being 15!

DOUBLE GARRRGGGH. It gets worse and worse. Whatever reason was there for for meddling with the old simple, easily understood LOGICAL system - Primer 1 to 6, Form 3 to 6 , and Upper Sixth (Oh, all right , and the Remove if you must).

Obviously the educational system is devised by Arts graduates, because there is certainly no semblence of logic in it. And they ain't historians, either, cos they wouldn't be so stupid. Or classicists cos they don't want to change anything.

[merv]

Looks like he's talking Uni or Polytech grades and maybe he's going into engineering at Canterbury in the Professional years and not intermediate year.

[Jantar]

First, I'd like to add my congratulations to all those who have done well in their exams.

Now for older folk here like Ixion and others around my age who don't have much to do with NCEA, perhaps I can put things into perspective. In our days we were marked on a percentage basis out of a maximum possible. This no longer happens. eg in Level 1 maths there are a total of 129 credits available. Most schools will chose around 25 - 30 of these for their pupils, so that a score of 26 credits is actually quite good. However, back in our day we would have said that it was only a score of 20%.

A Level 1 pass is 80 credits total over a range of subjects, and some excess credits can be carried over to Level 2. Imagine 30 years ago in we could carry our excees SC marks over to UE or Bursary exams.

In short a score equal to 20% is good. Failure in any year is now impossible, although failure at a particular level is still possible. Year 12 students may be repeating some level 1 work even though they are still called year 12.

[Jamezo]

Warning: Extremely Bad Explanation Posted Above.

And yes, I was referring to University results, to enter my first pro year at Canterbury (electrical w00t).

Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...al_Achievement for a good explanation.