NCEA

The number of Otago secondary schools failing to meet the national average pass rate in NCEA level 1 has increased significantly.

King's High School in Dunedin has achieved the highest NCEA pass rates for state boys' schools in the country, New Zealand Qualifications Authority statistics show.

Peter Lyons maintains that the fundamental problem with the NCEA is not insurmountable.

Student success in the latest NCEA exams is being touted by the Government as a result of its hard work over the last three years.

Not many teenagers would want to spend all their spare time studying, but Shaun Markham had a worthy point to prove.

The nervous wait is over for more than 6350 NCEA and 439 New Zealand Scholarship candidates in the Otago region, now that examination results have been posted online.

Hopeful secondary students today found out how they fared in last year's NCEA exams as results became available online.

Less than 24 hours from the first NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship examinations of 2011, 6358 Otago secondary school pupils are cramming in every scrap of information they can.

Almost half of the year 13 pupils at 13 Otago schools failed to achieve a level 3 NCEA qualification in 2010.

Almost a year ago, it was reported that the biggest gains in national certificate of educational achievement pass rates were from pupils in some of the country's lowest decile schools.