Us young 'uns NCEA results...

**hXc** · 17th January 2007, 21:58

English
A: 4
M: 4
Total credits: 21

French
A: 3
M: 2
Total credits:21

Maths
A: 7
M: 4
Total credits: 27

Music
A: 1
M: 2
E: 3
Total credits: 24

PE
A: 1
M: 2
Total credits: 11

Science
A: 4
M: 2
Total credits: 27

Tech
A: 3
Total credits: 16

**Fub@r** · 17th January 2007, 22:30

Originally Posted by hXc

English
A: 4
M: 4
Total credits: 21

French
A: 3
M: 2
Total credits:21

Maths
A: 7
M: 4
Total credits: 27

Music
A: 1
M: 2
E: 3
Total credits: 24

PE
A: 1
M: 2
Total credits: 11

Science
A: 4
M: 2
Total credits: 27

Tech
A: 3
Total credits: 16

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

**gijoe1313** · 17th January 2007, 22:30

Ahh good on ya hXc ... warms the cockles of my teachers heart that does! Try not to give too much shite to your suffering teachers too much! Tip : Do all your work correctly, do it quickly and ask for more ... always puts the wind up teachers

I'll be waiting to see if I have a job this year ... if too many of my students fail, I'll

Ah well, who'd be a teacher?

I used to worry about how well my charges did, but now, it's all indifference and blase ho-hum now

:

No!!

I will be buzzing around to the local areas where I know I can collar some of them and do the "so...how well did ya do?"

**Lias** · 18th January 2007, 08:00

Originally Posted by hXc

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Should I be worried that I could read that nearly as fast as plain english?

**MSTRS:Me** · 18th January 2007, 08:10

Originally Posted by Lias

Should I be worried that I could read that nearly as fast as plain english?

Yep. I ran it through my old Enigma machine...suffice to say we'd all be speaking German now.

**Flyingpony** · 18th January 2007, 08:12

Guessing Congratulations are in order!!!

I'm unsure if I should be congratulating you lot on excellent passes, passes, marginal passes or fails?
Did you learn something?

147 points at Level 1 doesn't imply anything to me. 95 out of 100 means something and so do E, D, C, B and A, with the odd +/- thrown in.

English
A: 4
M: 4
Total credits: 21

WTF!?

Don't worry, I've figured out what Year 10 means. It means you've been in school for 10 years and therefore are 15yrs young and therefore you're in 5th form.

Man, I feel so old school already yet it wasn't that long ago.

**ManDownUnder** · 18th January 2007, 08:16

Originally Posted by MSTRS

Yep. I ran it through my old Enima machine...

Which explains why it gave me the shits...

**MSTRS:Me** · 18th January 2007, 08:17

Originally Posted by Flyingpony

147 points at Level 1 doesn't imply anything to me. 95 out of 100 means something and so do E, D, C, B and A, with the odd +/- thrown in.

I asked him last night what the maximum number of points was (assume that 80 is a pass then 160 is max.possible - eh wrong). Turns out that points depend on subjects taken with some worth more than others. Theoretically it is possible to do a 'full' syllabus, score 100%, yet still get less than the 80 reqd for a pass. NCEA still doesn't do it for me either.

**ManDownUnder** · 18th January 2007, 08:18

Originally Posted by Flyingpony

Guessing Congratulations are in order!!!

I'm unsure if I should be congratulating you lot on excellent passes, passes, marginal passes or fails?
Did you learn something?

147 points at Level 1 doesn't imply anything to me. 95 out of 100 means something and so do E, D, C, B and A, with the odd +/- thrown in.

WTF!?

Don't worry, I've figured out what Year 10 means. It means you've been in school for 10 years and therefore are 15yrs young and therefore you're in 5th form.

Man, I feel so old school already yet it wasn't that long ago.

Let me help. Here's what I understand
A4 = Skyhawk
M4 is a road in the UK
21 Credits means you can play another 21 games on the machine in question.

Anything else?

oh yeah.... good stuff hXc. Turns out you can be a cheeky little bastard and do ok at school. A pearl of wisdom an old boss of mine gave me a while back...

If you don't aim for the sky, you may not clear the trees at the end of the runway. It's very true.

**MSTRS:Me** · 18th January 2007, 08:26

Originally Posted by Flyingpony

WTF!?

that is the number of achieveds, merits, or excellences not the points. Each subject is broken down into sections which are individually assessed. You do not get more credits for getting an excellence (E) than you do for an acheived (A)

Originally Posted by Flyingpony

Don't worry, I've figured out what Year 10 means. It means you've been in school for 10 years and therefore are 15yrs young and therefore you're in 5th form.

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

**Hitcher** · 18th January 2007, 08:33

An age at which he would have once been legally able to leave school and enter the workforce. In those times, qualifications gained as a 15-year-old had some meaning as they were waved in the faces of employers who could use them to whittle down the numbers of people they may have to interview for job applications (all other things being equal).

The world has changed. Although NCEA is an earnest attempt to describe what students may have learned or demonstrated competency at, it has a long way to go before people "get it". Myself included.

**Fatjim** · 18th January 2007, 08:44

The way I see it, if someone is that young that they have gone through the NCEA system then they are too young to employ. Simple isn't it.

Employers should give people under 20 a test before employing them covering 5th form Maths & English, plus any thing pertinent to the specific role. Then you might actually be able to tell if the kid sniffed too much glue or not.

**MidnightMike** · 18th January 2007, 08:51

Im still waiting for my level 2 results, but in level 1 i got 170 or something credits, so i pretty much owned ncea on that one.

**jrandom** · 18th January 2007, 15:49

Shudder. Blearrghh. I'm sending my boy to a school that offers the Cambridge examinations.

I suppose NCEA will do fine for my daughter, of course; her mother will undoubtedly teach her everything she really needs to know at home in the kitchen, in any case.

**yungatart** · 18th January 2007, 15:55

Originally Posted by Fish

Shudder. Blearrghh. I'm sending my boy to a school that offers the Cambridge examinations.

I suppose NCEA will do fine for my daughter, of course; her mother will undoubtedly teach her everything she really needs to know at home in the kitchen, in any case.

An easy pass, from all accounts - specialising in how to pick up rubbish (answers provided, of course!)