Papanui High School/Coursebook/NCEA

National Qualifications
The National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEAs) offer all students the opportunity to achieve to their potential. NCEAs are recognised by employers and universities in New Zealand and overseas. A range of national certificates will also be available. You can study towards one or more specialist national certificates at the same time as NCEAs. All credits count towards your NCEA. NCEAs are standard-based qualifications. This means that you are assessed against standards that measure what you know and can do. There are two types of standards: achievement standards and unit standards. Teachers will assess unit standards at school (internal assessment). You will either reach the required standard and achieve the standard (achieved) or, if you do not reach the standard, you will get a not achieved. Achievement standards are either assessed by teachers at school (internally assessed) or at the end of the year in national exams (externally assessed). You will get a not achieved grade if you do not meet the standard. If you achieve a satisfactory standard, you will gain an achieved grade. You will get merit for a very good performance or excellence for outstanding performance.

Literacy &amp; Numeracy
Level 1 NCEA requires students to achieve literacy and numeracy standards as part of the qualification. Your tutor will let you know which achievement standards count towards literacy and numeracy. Some students may gain literacy and mumeracy through the new, specially focused unit standards. At Level 2 you should start thinking about what areas you need to focus on for your future study or career. Your level 2 results are important – these are sometimes used as part of the selection process by universities, polytechnics and employers. You need to choose your level 3 subjects carefully to ensure that you are exploiting your strengths while meeting course requirements for university, polytechnics and/or future employment.

Certificate endorsements
You should be aiming to achieve to your potential.


 * You may achieve your certificate with excellence if you get 50 excellence credits.
 * If you get 50 credits at merit, or a mixture of merit and excellence, you will receive an NCEA certificate endorsed with merit.

You will also have the opportunity to aim for a merit or excellence course endorsement. This means that if you receive 14 or more excellence credits in one of your courses, you will receive an excellence endorsement for that subject or course. If you receive 14 credits at merit or a mixture of merit and excellence, you will receive a merit endorsement.

Scholarship
If you achieve a significant number of excellence or merit and excellence results in a subject at level 2, you should consider entering scholarship. Scholarship is externally assessed and is designed to extend very able students. It provides successful candidates with financial assistance for tertiary study. If you demonstrate significant ability and interest in a particular subject, you may be eligible to enrol in a university paper.

University Study
Important Information for Students Entering Year 13

Please note the following:

From 2012


 * Universities have limited entry to many courses and may now use a Grade point average score for entry. Therefore even if you have University Entrance, you may not have entry to the course you wish to take.
 * Some programmes, for example fine arts and music, have additional requirements such as an audition, interview, portfolio of work or pre-requisite subjects.
 * Some commerce, medicine and engineering courses have additional academic requirements.
 * Entry to University for International students has changed. IELTS is not accepted, if you have studied at a New Zealand School.
 * The University preparation course for ESOL (held at most Universities) is for students who have failed to achieve University Entrance. This course is generally for one semester. Successful completion will give you entry to University.
 * The University preparation course for English speakers is being phased out at some Universities.
 * Polytechnics and some Private Providers also offer Diploma and Degree courses, and you need to be aware of their entry requirements, eg nursing at CPIT requires you to take an English rich subject and achieve University Entrance.
 * Check with the careers staff or the course tutor which subjects you should take in Year 13 for further study.


 * SEE THE CAREER STAFF


 * READ THE NOTICES


 * ATTEND THE CAREERS INFORMATION VISITS AND SPEAKERS

In NZ there are eight universities. Courses and entry requirements are constantly being updated. Please refer to the links below for the most up to date information.


 * The University of Auckland
 * Auckland University of Technology
 * The University of Waikato
 * Massey University (Albany, Manawatu, Wellington)
 * Victoria University of Wellington
 * The University of Canterbury
 * Lincoln University (Christchurch)
 * The University of Otago

There are 19 polytechnics in New Zealand. Of these two are located within Auckland.


 * Unitec Institute of Technology
 * Manukau Institute of Technology

A full list of all polytechnics in NZ, including links can be found here: http://webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz/dir/en/nz/education/tertiary-education/polytechnics-and-institutes-of-technology/

University Entrance
Proposed Entry to University for 2013 and Beyond

PLEASE NOTE: This is the proposed University Entrance requirement and we will confirm as soon as possible. You must have:

(1) NCEA Level 3 – 60 credits at Level 3 or higher and 20 credits at Level 2 or higher = 80 credits.

(2) 14 credits in each of three subjects from the “Approved list”.




 * From specified Level 2 English achievement standards or
 * From specified Level 3 achievement standards or
 * From two specified Level 4 English unit standards for academic purpose or
 * Success in literacy common assessment task externally assessed twice a year by NZQA



To Clarify: Subjects A, B and C must be from the approved list of subjects = 42 credits.