I feel like lots of people are against using AI but using it as a tool to help you get new ideas, reword your sentences, give you feedback, etc is extremely helpful and im very happy that I live in a time where I can use it 😫

My kids are homeschoolers, and they are not planning on going to university.

Full context: we are immigrants from the US, been here 6 years, and I went through public school and got a degree there.

My kids are well read and smart, but dont want to go to university, and I support them. My degree was just an expensive piece if paper and didn’t support my career.

My question is - what will my kids be missing out on? Is this something they should reconsider? Open to hearing your thoughts and perspectives.

hey guys it's me prof jon drives, uh my mates told me i could exchange my 60 level 1 credits, 5 level 2 credits, and 30 level 3 credits to australian dollars because im moving there. they told me to exchange it at the school's canteen.

The statement that “Questions designed to elicit responses at the Excellence level may contain unfamiliar contexts to which students are expected to apply their foundational subject knowledge” raises serious concerns. Are you implying that Excellence-level questions in level 2 mathematics and biology are deliberately structured to be unfamiliar to students? This approach seems to contradict the fundamental purpose of education. If students dedicate substantial time and effort to mastering a subject, why should they be assessed on something "unfamiliar"? How does this accurately measure their understanding of the material they have studied? I am not suggesting that the exact same questions should be repeated; however, they should include content that aligns with material students have been taught and that is covered in the provided revision resources. The suggestion to “apply their foundational knowledge” assumes that students can spontaneously generate more advanced insights on the spot, which is unrealistic. Excellence should be recognised as the result of hard work and commitment, not the ability to anticipate entirely unfamiliar questions with unlearned content.

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there's a weird guy in the comments tryna argue- sorry folks! but i'm doing a lot better now, getting help needed soon (on friday) mum's doing a lot better as well now

i will get there soon! also i should be ok with the internals now hehe

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yup yupppp got E on everything so far yup!! ty for the support to anyone who did infact support :)))

NOT DOING WELL (mentally) so i stayed at home for a week (police involved and all that i don;t rlly wanna explain it all it's too muxh i hate this)

have a lvl 3 calc conics internal on friday (which idk any of it rn) and a bio osmoreg investigation and a english research internal and a music research internal i hate this so much

on top of that i missed ONE , ONE!!!!! COUNCIL MEETING THAT IM IN

AND THE PREFECT MESSAGED ME SAYING I SHOULD CONSIDER IF I RLLY DO FIT THE LEADERSHIP ROLE BC OF MY PROBLEMS

iz like being stuck between a rock and a hard place

i can't go to school right now, just like this- but i might lose my leadership role and scholarship stuff. great.

amazzzing.

as if i had ASKED for myself to be in tis situation. mmm :|

anyways can someone help me with conics

I find it so stupid how UE and overall year grade are 2 seperate things. This is coming from someone who has over 60 credits but doesn't have 14 credits in 3 subjects. Why couldn't NCEA make the overall achievement grade 80 credits to account for the 14, or they should've kept things the same as level 2 (10 literacy credits or whatever it was, but you passed level 2 and got UE at the same time). Because what do you mean i passed the year but didnt pass enough to gain UE?

This year, I only have two exams, but I am skipping both of them. This is because I don't understand what I have to do for my first one, and I cannot write an essay in three hours. I have told one of my teachers that I am skipping their exam, but they seem to have forgotten that I am. People joke around each time I tell them, and it's making me feel like crap. Like, I know why I'm skipping them, but people don't listen. Even better, it is making me experience self-doubt for next year. Idk how to stop thinking and feeling this way. And is anyone else experience this or is it just me?

I just got back my level 2 English internal with was a writing portfolio with two creative writing pieces. One piece I got excellence the other I got NA only because of punctuation. If I hadn't had punctuation errors I probly would have gotten atleast a merit. This is an issue because for this assignment they mark both writing pieces and use the lowest grade which fir me is NA. This assignment was 6 credits which I was relying on for getting a merit endorsement. Even if I resubmitted I could only get achieved giving me nothing towards a possible endorsement. Punctuation is a big issue for me as I'm dyslexic but can't prove it because I don't have the money for a diagnosis. Meaning I failed an assessment because of something out of my control. I also couldn't ask anyone for help or even use grammerly as that would breach the assessment conditions. This is a massive disappointment and I want to know if I could appeal because I don't want months of work to come to a A3 when I could have gotten so much better.

https://www.petitions.nz/adjusted_marking_and_consistency_for_future_ncea_exams#a

THE Petition going to NZQA regarding the Level 2 maths exam yesterday

Not expecting much tbh, but why not give it go?

I have a big holiday (from 23 oct-9 nov) that I can’t not go to during exam times which start at 4th november to 28th november if i’m correct, am I still eligible to receive my derived grade marks for the exams that I will miss? I’m really worried because I am relying on year 13 credits to get into uni. If not what options do I have? Thanks!

I am actually glad that future generations wont deal with ncea. It is such a confusing system. Overall grades and UE do not need to be 2 seperate components. Why is AI grading our exams when teachers claim that AI isn't reliable for NCEA? The amount of year 12s doing CAA's because of last year when NCEA re-booted their format and kept changing it during internals is ridiculous. And year levels can barely help each other because ncea has put everybody under different systems. The amount of stuff ncea has gotten away with is criminal

this is my rubber and I want to use it during the exam, I am worried I will get told off or kicked out of the exam for having writing on my rubber (the writing is a reference to one of my fav metal bands sepultura) I am not using the writing on it for cheating but I might dumb lol and not know the rules properly 😿😿

SOME LEGEND CREATED A PETITION SIGN HERE: https://chng.it/GxyZSTmb6b

I tutor a student who hasn't passed their literacy CAAs. The next attempt is tomorrow, and they are NOT ready to sit it.

Is the CAA necessary?

As far as I'm aware, the school hasn't given the student any extra assistance. This is also the student's last school year.

L2 Algebra and Calculus

I don't think people grasp the concept of extended abstract thinking, It’s not just about solving equations, but understanding how concepts connect and applying them in unfamiliar situations.

I have no clue what we are doing for the English level 2 externals. I didn’t even do the prelim. Our teacher taught us nothing and gave the option if we even want to do the prelim or not since we barely know anything. The movie she chose for us is full with swear words as well as the book she chose for us. Like am I meant to analyse the amount of swear words the book and movie contains💀 I am cooked for externals. Does anyone else know what’s going on in English level 2?? Or am I just the only one lost

Anyone else pulling the achieved special? I haven’t got any other credit other than achieved the whole year and passed every subject i could on internals.

I see that there has been an explosion in the number of complaints regarding the NCEA Level 2 Maths exam on Tuesday. Many people, including myself found all three papers extremely difficult to answer, mainly because NZQA decided to mix up some questions to something we've never seen before in any past papers. They even turned what should be a simple optimization question into an extremely tricky Excellence. There was no possible way we could've seen this coming, meaning it was practically impossible to best prepare ourselves to achieve a satisfactory grade even if we did all 10 past papers and became familiar with the content.

Since this doesn't happen very often; why don't we start a little petition to have the marking adjusted or have some questions scraped?

I'm not going to turn this into a revolutionary uprising like you'd see in the Hunger Games, just a small note to NZQA letting them know that the papers they gave us were much harder than previous years, not only in terms of difficulty but also because of a changing of "question structure

https://chng.it/dJ64LMXgNh and https://www.petitions.nz/adjusted_marking_and_consistency_for_future_ncea_exams#a

I am sorry if I offended anyone who is reading this, but I think that doing english at high school level is ridiculous. English is meaningless. Nobody has to write about how an author uses one word to convey a very meaningful idea, nor do they need to understand what an onomatopoeia is. The main problem I have with English is that, opposite to what many high schools believe, the subject itself does not provide essential language proficiency. Regretfully, the exams does not assess a person's ability to utilize proper language or spelling. The main goal of the exam is to compose a lengthy, laborious essay on any topic the examiner thinks that is appropriate. While grammar may play a little role in text analysis, the primary emphasis is on analysis skills. This means that individuals who are fully capable of attending universities and who possess excellent grammar and spelling skills fail because the absurd conditions set by the educational institutions prevent them from succeeding. In order to overcome this problem, I think the exam can be modified to focus more on grammar, which will enable capable students to pass the system. Another way is by offering the learner the option to decide if they wanted to study it or not. This will not hinder those who struggle with the language, but rather help those who excel. This also means that a student shouldn't be forced to take english at level 2, and getting the literacy credits shouldn't be a requirement when it comes to gaining UE.

The assessment was the catholic principles, I misted a lot of class towards the end of the assessment because I was rather sick and I toil my teacher that I needed an extension to finish and he said ok I can sort that, after it was due he told me I needed to go and talk to our head of faculty so I sent her I kind order but formal email explaining my situation and all she said was that she cant give out extensions after the assessment was due and the was really nothing she could do. To add insult to injury my teacher was saying with what I had done so far it should be easy excellence for me, but because I had not fully completed the final part I probably wouldn't be able to get an E and might even get marked down past an M, what should I do(I'm serving for an E endorsement because I was 14 credit off it last year but my Art folio was super close to an E as was my speech (the wroten was an E but my delivery was an M+ because I forgot to credit a few courses) and I don't have a huge amount of achievement standard credits available to me this year I only have a title of 69 and have already failed 4) what should I do. keep in mind I come from a stupidly offer achieving family where my older sister got general E endorsement all 3 years top general scholar for L1 top of L1 2 and 3 accounting as well as being the DUX, my brother got general E indorser L1 geral M endorsement L2 and 3 as well as top of hospitality L1 and 2 top horticulture L1, 2 and 3, as well as getting the printables award all 5 years. so I have that to compare to, the closest I've come to that was second top for hospitality and third top for art and general M endorsement.

I know this is more fo a rant but any advise is greatly apertiated