Ordering result documents for secondary students

How to get your results for use in New Zealand and overseas

You can access, download and order paper copies of your results online in the learner portal. If you're a new user, you'll need to create an account:

Create an account (external link)

For secondary school students, the ‘My School Entries and Results’ screen is updated with internal results as they become available during the year. External results are available online from late January.

Be careful of when you order results

As your results are updated regularly, we recommend carefully considering what copies of your documents you order and when. If you need more copies, there may be a charge.

Applying for a review or reconsideration and results

If you're going to apply for a review or reconsideration, don't order your result documents until the review or reconsideration process is complete.

If you've applied for a review or reconsideration to find out if you gained University Entrance, let your chosen university know. It can take up to 6 weeks for your updated results to become available.

Reviews and reconsiderations information

Results you can download or order from the learner portal

In the MyNZQA learner portal, you can download or order:

  • New Zealand Record of Achievement (NZRoA)
  • National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA) and University Entrance (UE) Certificates
  • School Results Summary.

You're entitled to one free paper copy of your NZRoA, UE and NCEA at each level, if you had results reported to NZQA the previous year. Extra paper copies cost $15.30 each:

Order copies through your school login (external link)

Order copies through the MyNZQA learner portal (external link)

Who can view your results

All the details shown on your School Results Summary and New Zealand Record of Achievement are sent to your school automatically.

New Zealand universities can access your records if you've allowed your results to be released to tertiary institutions. 

You can confirm this by checking in the 'My Enrolments' area of the learner portal. If 'Results to Tertiary Institutions' is yes, New Zealand universities have access to your results.

Check in the learner portal (external link)

Contact Data Management and Learner Records if you wish to change if tertiary institutions can view your records.

Email Data Management and Learner Records

Studying overseas and your results

If you're planning to study at an overseas tertiary institution, contact the institution as early as possible to find out what results information you need to provide.

Australian universities will contact NZQA directly to obtain your results.

Not that you can't apply for overseas admission from the learner portal. You'll need to download your results and send them.

Overseas Results Notice (ORN)

If you're an international fee-paying student, you can download your overseas results notice, or ORN from the 'Order documents' section of the portal. The ORN contains a summary of credits by subject in PDF format.

Log in (external link)

Additional information is available for Thai and German students here:

Applying to study overseas with NCEA

Sending your results directly from NZQA to your university

Some tertiary institutions require your result notices directly from NZQA.

Contact Data Management and Learner Records for more information about the overseas admission process:

Email Data Management and Learner Records

Grade Point Average (GPA) estimates for international universities

If the tertiary institution at which you're planning to study does not directly recognise NCEA results, NZQA may be able to provide an estimate of your overall and subject performance in the form of a GPA letter. This is subject to there being sufficient credits assessed during the year.

For more information about the GPA process contact Psychometrics, Reporting and Statistics (PRS):

Email PRS

Offers of places at universities are entirely at the universities' discretion.

Document certification

If the tertiary institution to which you're applying needs authentication of your NZQA result notices, refer to the Department of Internal Affairs website for information about this.

Department of Internal Affairs information on using documents overseas (external link)

Some institutions also require the secondary school to authenticate these documents or provide a school leaving letter or certificate.

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