Many students said this year's Level 2 NCEA Maths papers were far more difficult than previous years. Photo / 123RF Puzzled by polynomials? Confused by calculus? Then this test could make you break ...

Concerned teachers have shared the NCEA question that left top students in tears after their exam. The maths question was sent to the Herald by a teacher concerned about its inappropriateness. The ...

Students at Rongotai College in Wellington were among 8000 students nationally who sat NCEA online last year. Photo / File Students are "in shock" over a maths exam that has stumped even some of their ...

Exasperated maths teachers are drafting a letter of complaint after a major exam left baffled students facing questions they had little chance of answering. For the second year running NCEA Level One ...

Students at a high schools across New Zealand took a recent maths exam that was reportedly so difficult, many of them were unable to complete it. Year 11 students at Wellington Girls' College were one ...

The Government is prioritising maths and literacy learning by introducing new assessments from next year, while shifting the timeframes of other changes to NCEA and the national curriculum, Education ...

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is defending the difficulty of NCEA exam questions for students trying to achieve excellence endorsements this year. The authority said it had received ...

The exam has sparked an open letter by maths teachers to the NZ Qualifications Authority complaining that the exam was too hard for Level 1 of the National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA ...

Pass rates in crucial NCEA maths and literacy tests improved this year, but at least 34,800 teenagers, including most candidates from poor schools, failed. Qualifications Authority figures showed just ...