Information releases

Find out what information we have released

The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) is committed to making government more open, more transparent and more focused on the needs of New Zealanders.

We proactively release a range of information that the public might want to know.

If we have not released some information you want, you can make an Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) request to NZQA.

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2023 and 2024 releases

2023 and 2024 releases are below.

2018 to 2022 releases

For 2018 to 2022 releases go to our release archive:

Release archive

Advice seen by the Minister

NZQA proactively releases material because the Minister of Education is committed to being open and transparent.

This information is released in two stages. Each week, we release a list of titles of briefings and reports that NZQA has sent to the Minister. Once a month we release the full text of the briefing and reports we gave the Minister.

We will release documents with some redactions. These redactions reflect the grounds for withholding information under the Official Information Act 1982.

What we have given to Ministers

Minister Stanford

Date

Title, report or document

OC number

13 October 2024

NCEA co-requisite assessment event two preparation [PDF, 600 KB]

OC01171

7 October 2024

NCEA co-requisite assessment event 1 results [PDF, 324 KB]

OC01062

7 October 2024

2025 NCEA co-requisite standards assessment event scheduling [PDF, 336 KB]

OC00939

7 October 2024

Summary update of Literacy and Numeracy assessment events May 2024 [PDF, 160 KB]

OC00885

7 October 2024

NCEA in Kaupapa Māori senior secondary settings [PDF, 1 MB]

OC00816

26 July 2024

Publication of NZQA’s Annual Report on NCEA and NZ Scholarship and Data Statistics [PDF, 720 KB]

OC00852

26 July 2024

NZQA update on Literacy and Numeracy assessments after two days [PDF, 139 KB]

OC00866

26 July 2024

Use of unit standards - NCEA supplementary information [PDF, 163 KB]

OC00815

26 July 2024

External Review Digital Assessments 2023 [PDF, 3.1 MB]

OC00777

26 July 2024 

Use of unit standards in NCEAs [PDF, 735 KB]

OC00781

26 July 2024

NZQA Assessment Rules for Schools 2024 Amendment 1 cover briefing [PDF, 339 KB]

OC00756

26 July 2024

2023 Exam Round Summary A3 [PDF, 537 KB]

OC00674

26 July 2024

Special Assessment Conditions - further details [PDF, 191 KB]

OC00673

26 July 2024

Exemplars for sciences and mathematics externally assessed standards - plus five attachments [PDF, 171 KB]

OC00615 Maths exemplars [PDF, 7.6 MB]

OC00615 Chem Bio exemplars [PDF, 5.8 MB]

OC00615 Science exemplars [PDF, 8.8 MB]

OC00615 AgHort exemplars [PDF, 1.7 MB]

OC00615 Physics exemplars [PDF, 9.6 MB]

OC00615

26 July 2024

NZQA Assessment Rules 2024 [PDF, 374 KB]

OC00593

26 July 2024

Assessor Support and Resources to support NCEA Level 1 implementation [PDF, 319 KB]

OC00589

26 July 2024

Special Assessment Conditions for national school qualifications [PDF, 689 KB]

OC00599

26 July 2024

NCEA Level 1 Trends [PDF, 768 KB]

OC00598

26 July 2024

Provisional 2023 Enrolment based NCEA and UE National Attainment Statistics [PDF, 2.2 MB]

OC00548

26 July 2024

NCEA results, data release and communications [PDF, 730 KB]

OC00582

26 July 2024

Derived Grade Process [PDF, 213 KB]

OC00580

26 July 2024

Online platform and NCEA examination matters [PDF, 505 KB]

OC00579

26 July 2024

2023 NCEA and NZ Scholarship end-of-year exam round [PDF, 1.3 MB]

 OC00513

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Minister Simmonds

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Minister Tinetti

Date Title, report or document OC number
16 August 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00414
8 August 2023 Education Report NZQA Assessment Rules for Schools, TEOs assessing against Achievement Standards and Candidates 2023 Amendment No. 1 [PDF, 321 KB] OC00388
8 August 2023 Aide Memoire Application of Unspecified Credit(s) to School Leaver qualifications in response to adverse events [PDF, 780 KB] OC00384
8 August 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00388
2 August 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00393
19 July 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00374
5 July 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00351
30 June 2023 Education Report: NZQA’s final 2023/2024 Statement of Performance Expectations for Publication [PDF, 583 KB] OC00320
21 June 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00326
7 June 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00307
1 June 2023 Publication of NZQA’s Annual Report on NCEA and NZ Scholarship Data and Statistics (2022) [PDF, 1.4 MB] OC00259
24 May 2023 Education report: NZQA Third Quarter report for the period ending 31 March 2023 [PDF, 171 KB] OC00195
24 May 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00279
10 May 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00246
28 April 2023 Education report: Draft NZQA 2023/2024 NZQA Statement of Performance Expectations [PDF, 391 KB] OC00102
26 April 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00225
20 April 2023 Final 2022 Enrolment based NCEA and University Entrance National Attainment Statistics [PDF, 1.4 MB] OC00199
12 April 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00200
31 March 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00175
22 March 2023 NZQA Ministerial briefing Code Delegation to Universities New Zealand [PDF, 821 KB] OC00112
15 March 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00149
7 March 2023 NZQA briefing for Minister’s meeting with NZQA Board 16 March 2023 [PDF, 512 KB] OC00094
March 2023 Education report: NZQA 2021-2022 Annual Report [PDF, 57 MB] OC00064
March 2023 Education report: Changes to NZQA Rules [PDF, 200 KB] CR25629
March 2023 Education Report: First Quarter 2022-2023 report Ministerial briefing [PDF, 308 KB] CR25380
March 2023 Aide Memoire: Consultation on NZQ Rules [PDF, 285 KB] CR24973
28 February 2023 Education report: NZQA Second Quarter report 31 December 2022 [PDF, 296 KB] OC00087
15 February 2023 Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education 0C00095
13 January 2023 NZQA Provisional 2022 NCEA and UE results [PDF, 1.7 MB] OC00061
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Minister Hipkins

Date Title, report or document OC number
18 January 2023 NZQA Fortnightly Report to the Minister of Education OC00052
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Official Information Act releases

As part of our commitment to be open and transparent, we publish responses to selected OIA requests which the public might want to know about.

NZQA publishes responses to OIA requests, after requestors have received their response from us and only where there is no risk to the privacy of individuals.

When we respond to requestors we explain whether we intend to make the information available. We remove the names and addresses of requestor before we publish the OIA responses.

NZQA's OIA responses will typically be released on our website quarterly, or as otherwise determined.

2024

Date published Release OC number
19 November 2024 2023 NZ Scholarship data by score [PDF, 340 KB]

OC00986

19 November 2024 ATAR Conversion [PDF, 290 KB]

OC00988

19 November 2024 Taranaki Schools corequisite data [PDF, 306 KB]

OC01090

19 November 2024 NZ Scholarship exams digital vs exams [PDF, 316 KB]

OC01122

19 November 2024 Central Lakes School NCEA data [PDF, 399 KB]

OC01125

19 November 2024 NCEA co-requisite costs [PDF, 308 KB]

OC01151

19 November 2024 Marking NCEA co-requisite assessment costs [PDF, 464 KB]

OC01162

19 November 2024 Exam resources and guidance [PDF, 508 KB]

OC01179

19 November 2024 Canterbury Schools NCEA NZC Level 1 pilot schools [PDF, 337 KB]

OC01182

16 July 2024 Overseas Qualifications Recognition for Bachelor of Education degrees from Indian universities [PDF, 304 KB]

OC00935

16 July 2024 Overseas Qualifications Recognition for Bachelor of Education degrees from Indian universities [PDF, 339 KB] OC00908
16 July 2024 Overseas Qualifications Recognition for Bachelor of Education degrees from Indian universities [PDF, 275 KB] OC00849
27 June 2024 List of NZ Certificates and Diplomas with First Aid Standards [PDF, 213 KB] OC00744
27 June 2024 NCEA data for Otago Regional Schools [PDF, 339 KB] OC00738
27 June 2024 Mathematics and Statistics Level 1 assessment resources [PDF, 8.3 MB] OC00769
27 June 2024 Redesigned website and logo [PDF, 11 MB] OC00825
27 June 2024 Public Relations and Communications expenditure [PDF, 355 KB] OC00750
27 June 2024 Contractor and Consultant expenditure [PDF, 366 KB] OC00795
27 June 2024 NZ Scholarship Data 2021 to 2023 [PDF, 329 KB] OC00753
5 April 2024 Nursing Qualifications [PDF, 11 MB] OC00552
27 March 2024 Australian ATAR ranks [PDF, 1.1 MB] OC00608
27 March 2024 Australian ATAR ranks [PDF, 3.4 MB] OC00600
27 March 2024 Most assessed unit standards [PDF, 296 KB] OC00584
27 March 2024 NCEA English L2 and 3 external assessment data - digital vs paper  [PDF, 385 KB] OC00564
27 March 2024 Auckland subject level data [PDF, 18 MB] OC00556
27 March 2024 Digital vs paper exams [PDF, 221 KB] OC00532
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2023

Date published Release OC number
19 December 2023 Bachelor of Nursing applications [PDF, 391 KB]

Documents for release [PDF, 31 MB]
OC00297
13 December 2023 June 2023 Numeracy assessment [PDF, 198 KB] OC00451
13 December 2023 Artificial Intelligence [PDF, 2.8 MB] OC00458
13 December 2023 Availability of external assessment resources [PDF, 269 KB] OC00480
13 December 2023 Pastoral care [PDF, 230 KB] OC00482
13 December 2023 Realm nations Literacy and Numeracy achievement data [PDF, 387 KB] OC00506
13 December 2023 June 2023 Literacy and Numeracy assessment data [PDF, 293 KB] OC00507
13 December 2023 Charter Schools data [PDF, 266 KB] OC00522
13 December 2023 Student subject preferences [PDF, 215 KB] OC00524
27 September 2023 Memorandum of Cooperation between NZQA and Bahrain Education and Training Quality Authority [PDF, 6.3 MB] OC00441
7 September 2023 NZQA events held costing over $10,000 [PDF, 298 KB] OC00430
4 September 2023 Reports on proposed new NCEA Level One [PDF, 186 KB] OC00280
4 September 2023 NCEA raw data 2018 to 2022 [PDF, 42 MB] OC00296
4 September 2023 Monitoring Te Pūkenga/ Weltec Bachelor of Contemporary Art [PDF, 5.3 MB] OC00397
4 September 2023 Reports about 2022 NCEA results [PDF, 4.6 MB] OC00264
4 September 2023 NZ Scholarship data 2018 to 2022 [PDF, 752 KB] OC00306
4 September 2023 AS91894 Use advanced techniques to develop an electronic outcome. Data 2018 to 2022 [PDF, 345 KB] OC00339
4 September 2023 NCEA level one not attained- Marlborough Region [PDF, 397 KB] OC00373
4 September 2023 NCEA attainment data [PDF, 392 KB] OC00232
23 June 2023 Literacy and Numeracy corequisites [PDF, 620 KB]

Document 1 [PDF, 5.3 MB]

Document 2a [PDF, 11 MB]

Document 2b [PDF, 3.2 MB]

Document 3 [PDF, 5.1 MB]

Document 4 [PDF, 4.3 MB]

Document 5 [PDF, 617 KB]

Document 6 [PDF, 2.5 MB]

Document 7 [PDF, 404 KB]
OC00173
22 June 2023 List of programmes delivered by PTES 2016 to 2018 that required teach outs [PDF, 1.1 MB] OC00198
22 June 2023 NZQA and Toitū [PDF, 2 MB] OC00194
22 June 2023 Literacy and Numeracy corequisites [PDF, 1.2 MB] OC00162
22 June 2023 NZQA Qualification Recognition Services team [PDF, 873 KB] OC00153
29 May 2023 Payment for OIA requests [PDF, 210 KB] OC00183
29 May 2023 NCEA approved calculator list [PDF, 422 KB] OC00161
29 May 2023 ATAR conversion [PDF, 410 KB] OC00146
29 May 2023 Complaints about Yoobee College of Creation and Innovation [PDF, 303 KB] OC00103
29 May 2023 Literacy/Numeracy pilots Palmerston North schools [PDF, 336 KB] OC00082
29 May 2023 Publication of the NCEA approved calculator list [PDF, 420 KB] OC00075
29 May 2023 Voiding and Credit counts [PDF, 417 KB] CR25705
29 May 2023 External PR engagement [PDF, 305 KB] CR25702
29 May 2023 Credit and Scholarship count [PDF, 258 KB] CR25697
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