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Jan 26, 2005 13:12

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NCEA/NZQA email anonymous January 30 2005, 14:54:46 UTC
Tried to send you a hotmail about being recorded absent from my exams, not sure if it sent or not, so I'll just post here as well...

Hi Joshua,

I was recorded absent from every single Level 3 exam I sat in 2004. When I called NCEA I was told that nothing could be done till my actual exam papers arrived. So they still had my papers, but they wanted to send them to me, and have me post them back. My fully marked papers didn't arrive till the 28th of January 2005, and by that time I had already been rejected from a BE in Software Engineering at Waikato because apparently I hadn't met the full course entry requirements. This mistake may also have cost me a Tearaway magazine scholarship for $3000. Now I'm waiting out the long week-end to call NCEA and check what address to send the papers back to, and also to ask if they will send a freepost envelope for me to do so.

I assume that once my marks are properly recorded I will receive a new record of learning free in the mail, as my current one is completely useless. I think it's something like $10 to order a new one. Do you know what will happen with regards to this?

I also know two other Taita College students who were recorded absent from exams, I'll give them a link to your LJ entry.

Cheers,
Shannon Bay

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Me again... anonymous January 31 2005, 13:57:56 UTC
I think a big problem with NCEA is the subject groupings for credits. This is intrinsic to the system, and it's creating huge problems.

It seems as if my calculus and statistics credits have been recorded under one 'Mathematics' subject. So I have over 40 credits in one subject, but I actually need two subjects with atleast 20 and 16 credits.

Another example is with art. One of my friends couldn't gain university entrance because his art credits were recorded under two different headings, so he has two useless subjects with less than 14 credits each. I'll forward your message on to him, as he has also been recorded absent from atleast one exam I believe.

Shannon Bay

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Re: Me again... anonymous January 31 2005, 14:08:20 UTC
Also, as a friend just pointed out, we actually sat seperate exams for stats and calc...

I initialy thought the problem lay with the schools' selection of credits - they just assumed that as calculus and statistics have traditionally been seperate subjects that they would remain so. After all, they are about as closely related as history and geography, where both are social sciences, stats and calc are both maths.

Now I'm quite certain NCEA has simply made another mistake.

Shannon

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