Results publication: Advice for students

Information for students on accessing their published NCEA results, and understanding what each grade means

How to see your results

From late January, you can access your results for externally assessed standards in the MyNZQA learners portal.

If it's your first time logging in to view your results, you'll need to create an account. Make sure you have your National Student Number (NSN).

Helpful links

Log in to NZQA

Create a MyNZQA new account

Find my NSN

Understanding your results online

Each standard can have a range of results

These include:

  • 'N' for Not achieved
  • 'A' for Achieved
  • 'M' for Achieved with merit
  • 'E' for Achieved with excellence.

Other possible result codes

  • 'ABS' for Absent
  • 'SNA' for Standards not assessed
  • 'RNA' for Results not available.

Achievement standards and unit standards

All "9xxxx" series numbers refer to achievement standards and all other reference numbers are unit standards.

As some standards can't be awarded all of these results, the result code is shown in bold where a student has achieved the maximum possible result for that standard.

More information

Read our guide to online results

Accessing your marked NCEA and NZ Scholarship exams

Your marked NCEA exams and NCEA Level 3 Visual Arts Results Card are available in the MyNZQA learners portal.

Please check that you have a marked exam, either a scanned booklet or a digital exam, for all the externally assessed NCEA standards you attempted. 

NZ Scholarship Media Studies online

If you sat NZ Scholarship Media Studies online, you can also access your marked digital exam from your student login.

Your NZ Scholarship answer booklets will be returned by mail after results are released early-mid February. If you don't receive your booklet, please call us on 0800 697 296.

Go to our log in options page

Related information

Return of examination material

If you think there is a problem with your results

Internally assessed standards or externally assessed portfolios

If you have concerns about your results for internally assessed standards or externally assessed portfolios, you should contact your school.

Other externally assessed standards

For other externally assessed standards, please wait until you have viewed your marked exam so you can check what grade score has been recorded by the marker.

Reviews and reconsiderations

Reviews and reconsiderations can take up to 6 weeks to process. If you are a prospective university student waiting for a review or reconsideration outline, tell the university that you have outstanding reviews or reconsiderations.

Reviews

You can apply for a review if you think there has been:

  • a processing error in recording your results, or
  • one or more sections of your booklet appear to be unmarked, or
  • there is an issue with your digital or scanned script, or Level 3 Visual Arts Results Card or NZ Scholarship Performance Summary Cards.

Read more about reviews and reconsiderations

Reconsiderations

If you think your exam has been incorrectly marked, you can apply for a reconsideration.

First, you should consult the judgement statement for the standard, which will help you understand how your final result was decided; these will be published shortly after results have been published.

Read more about reviews and reconsiderations

Certificates and other result documents

You're entitled to one free copy of:

  • your Record of Achievement
  • your School Result Summary and
  • the printed certificate for a qualification you have achieved (such as NCEA Level 1).

Find out how to order your free copies:

Access your results

Ordering result documents for secondary students

Endorsements

New endorsements

If you have been awarded a new endorsement on an NCEA qualification achieved in a previous year, you can request a new certificate.

To order a new certificate with a new endorsement, go to:

Ordering result documents for secondary students

Certificate or course endorsement

Your entries and results page include certificate and course endorsement results.

Read more about NCEA endorsements

For course endorsement, the standards that made up each course were selected by your school and if you have any questions about this you should contact your school.

Credit inclusion

Credit inclusion is when we recognise achievement from some certificates or qualifications that are not directly assessed using New Zealand Qualifications Framework Unit or Achievement standards.

Results from any of these programmes are not reported with your other results.

Find out more about credit inclusion in clause 7.4 of Schedule 1 of the Assessment Rules 2023:

Schedule 1 of the Assessment Rules 2023

Applying for credit inclusion

Your school can help you to make an application for credit inclusion. Credits from credit inclusion programmes will only be awarded if you require them to complete an NCEA qualification.

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