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NZQA is responsible for the exam papers for all externally assessed standards.
These papers, and the associated documents are available to help with study and learning.
Use the Search tool opposite to find the documents you want.
Document types:
Answer Booklet |
The booklet supplied to exam candidates in which they write their answers |
Assessment Report |
An overview of the performance of exam candidates in the subject or standard |
Assessment Schedule |
The markers' guide - what was accepted, or looked for in candidate answers - the 'correct' answers, as it were. Needs to be read in association with the Judgement Statement. |
Assessment Specification |
Defines how the assessment will occur - how long the exam will be, or other submission - and the format of the assessment - long or short answer or multi-choice questions, essays, number of questions, or, for submitted work, the nature of the work to be submitted. |
Exam Paper |
The set of questions to be answered by candidates in the exam room. In some cases there will be a single document; in others there may be separate documents, as below: |
| Exemplars | An actual student answer script, with annotations from the marker indicating why the script was assessed in the way it was. |
Judgement Statement |
Defines how the different levels of performance were separated from each other - for example that 4 correct elements means Acheivement; 6 means Achievement with Merit, and so on. |
| The National Moderators Reports contains summary comments from the national moderator to give guidance to asssessors for internally assessed standards. | |
Profile of Expected Performance |
A tool used to align the marking with the standard for external assessment. |
Question Booklet |
The booklet supplied to exam candidates holding only the questions they are to answer |
Resource Booklet |
A Booklet in which are the resources (eg. photos, text extracts, maps, diagrams, graphs) required for the exam |
The Standard |
Defines the learning outcomes (what the learner will be able to do, or explain, or demonstrate, or understand, etc), as well as the assessment criteria - how it will be assessed, and usually the topics for which external assessment will occur. |
Is that all?
There are internal assessments for things that best can't be tested effectively in exams, for example, speeches, research projects and performances. their students.
Note that all materials relating to INTERNALLY ASSESSED standards are the responsibility of the Ministry of Education and are available from its Te Kete Ipurangi: The Online Learning Centre ( TKI) website.
Last updated: 12 February 2008