Student assessment hub

Resources for your NCEA exams and assessments and beyond

Welcome to the student assessment hub.

Here you'll find everything you'll need for your NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship assessment journey. 

Have you set up your MyNZQA student account for exam season?

Setting up or updating your MyNZQA account

Literacy and Numeracy

My assessment resources

MyNZQA for learners (opens in a new window)

Log in to your NZQA account to access results and more

Learner log in

Assessment timetable

Check when your assessments are and if you can sit them digitally

Assessment timetable

NCEA subjects

Select a subject to find past exam papers, exemplars and other resources

Subject resources

National Student Number (NSN)

How to find your NSN if you don't know it

National Student Number

Requirements for Literacy and Numeracy and University Entrance

You will need to get enough credits in certain standards to:

  • meet Literacy and Numeracy requirements for NCEA
  • get University Entrance.

Find out more

Literacy and Numeracy, Te Reo Matatini me te Pāngarau requirements

University Entrance

New Zealand Scholarship

You can also sit assessments for New Zealand Scholarship.

Find out more about New Zealand Scholarship:

About New Zealand Scholarship

Scholarship subjects

My assessment results

Accessing and understanding NCEA results

Find and understand your NCEA results

NCEA results

Managing the pressure of results release

Handling results release stress, and what to do if you didn't get the results you wanted

Managing the pressure of results

Grade score marking

Find out how we mark NCEA papers and give grades

Grade score marking

Cut scores

Find the threshold for each grade at NCEA level 1, 2 and 3

Cut scores

Reviews and reconsiderations

How to ask for a review or reconsideration of an assessment result

Reviews and reconsiderations

My Record of Achievement

Your NZRoA lists the standards you've gained

Record of Achievement

Derived grades

If you missed an exam or performed poorly because of exceptional circumstances or illness, derived grades may apply

Derived grades

Access your marked exams online

How to use the MyNZQA learner portal to find your marked papers

Accessing marked exams

Contact us

Let us know if you have any questions or need help with logging in or finding your NSN:

  • call our Call Centre between 8am-5pm, Monday to Friday, on 0800 697 296 or +64 4 463 3000 if you’re calling from overseas
  • complete our online form for questions
  • ask our chatbot Awhina to find your NSN (look in the bottom right of the screen).

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Next steps

Order documents

You can order copies of your Record of Achievement and NCEA and University Entrance certificates

Order documents

Te Kura Summer School (opens in a new window)

If you need to pick up a few more credits, Te Kura Summer School is an option

tekura.school.nz

Fees Free (opens in a new window)

Through this government initiative, you could get your final year of tertiary education with no fees

feesfree.govt.nz

Find out about careers (opens in a new window)

Check what subjects, skills and qualifications each career needs

careers.govt.nz