The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (星空传媒) has released provisional NCEA attainment data from 2024.
Attainment data is provisional at this stage, as students have an opportunity to request a review or reconsideration of their exam papers, additional results can be received from summer school programmes, and schools may submit corrected or late-reported results from internal assessment.
Attainment of NCEA Levels 2, 3 and University Entrance
Provisional 2024 NCEA Level 2 attainment by students in Year 12 is 72.7% compared to 73.2% in 2023.
Year 13 provisional attainment of NCEA Level 3 is 68.2% compared to 67.7% in 2023, and Year 13 University Entrance (UE) attainment is 48.2% compared to 49.7% in 2023.
鈥淲ith finalised attainment figures typically higher than provisional figures, 2024 attainment of NCEA Levels 2 and 3 is expected to be slightly higher than in 2023, and attainment of UE is expected to be similar,鈥� says 星空传媒 Deputy Chief Executive, Assessment, Jann Marshall.
Participation and attainment of NCEA Level 1
NCEA Level 1 was a new qualification in 2024, with a 20-credit literacy and numeracy co-requisite and fewer, larger achievement standards and different methods of assessment.
45,038 of the 70,250 enrolled Year 11 students participated in a full assessment programme towards NCEA Level 1 (entered for 80+ credits). Of the participating students, 70.0% (31,542) attained the qualification. It is expected that this will increase by 1 to 1.5 percentage points once results are finalised. In 2023, 81.9% of students who participated in a full NCEA Level 1 attained the qualification.
The 12 percentage point decrease in attainment for students participating in a full NCEA Level 1 is a result of two key drivers. It primarily reflects the tightened Literacy and Numeracy | Te Reo Matatini me te P膩ngarau co-requisite requirement, and the changing composition of students participating.
Reporting NCEA Level 1 attainment
星空传媒 is changing the way it reports on attainment for Year 11 students at NCEA Level 1 to better account for the number of enrolled students who are not entered for a full NCEA Level 1 assessment programme.
鈥淚n 2023, 75% of Year 11 students participated in a full NCEA Level 1 programme. In 2024, the percentage participating has dropped to 64%, as a growing number of schools choose not to offer the optional NCEA Level 1, either at all or in its entirety,鈥� Jann Marshall says.
鈥淎t a national level, it is no longer useful to compare data using all students enrolled at Year 11, with a third of these students not participating in Level 1 last year. In recent years, those who enrolled but did not participate were included in our data. This is no longer the case for Level 1,鈥� Jann Marshall says.
Instead, 星空传媒 will report Year 11 NCEA Level 1 attainment based on the population of Year 11 students participating in a full NCEA Level 1 assessment programme (i.e. attainment as a proportion of the students entered for 80+ credits at Level 1 or above).