New NCEA Grades
As has been highlighted in the media, NZQA has introduced some new grades for NCEA exams, such as “You sack of poo”, “Nice one mate”, and “Good one dick!!”.
To help parents and students understand the new grades, and their equivalents in the old marking system, we are happy to provide a copy of the official translations from NZQA:
A+ Good guessing champ
A Go hotdog go
A- You’re a bit of a peacock
B+ Not bad cobber
B Nice one mate
B- You’re a real Joe Average
C+ Getting closer pal
C Try again chum
C- Good one dick
D You sack of poo
E You give retards a bad name
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Tags: Humour
January 28th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
There’s a new candidate for ‘E’ – Stupid Early Life Failure
January 28th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Some goon has REALLY stealthed through the system unnoticed.. Monkey. O-O-O. (No Offence Antarctic Lemur)
Me Thinks author of these little gem comments is either a) Self-Confessed “Bright Spark” on a Power Trip b) Old lady/man trying to cause a bit of havoc with their eagerness to keep up with the lingo of youth (no offence to the elderly) or c), my favourite theory, a covert, undercover operation. Yes People. High School students as NCEA markers. Its possible. Pay a friend of a friend who knows identity of markers a “fiddy” and your guaranteed an A+, along with an ego-boosting comment-that you can understand!
Hilarity from wrongness anyway!
January 28th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
I guess bringing back marks and grades that we (and potential employers) can understand is a bit too much to ask? Hell, maybe we could go over board and fail people who aren’t very good at something…
January 28th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Some goon has REALLY stealthed through the system unnoticed.. Monkey. O-O-O. (No Offence Antarctic Lemur)
Author of these little gem comments? Either a) Self-Confessed “Bright Spark” on a Power Trip b) Old lady/man trying to cause a bit of havoc with their eagerness to keep up with the lingo of youth (no offence to the elderly) or c), my favourite theory, a covert, undercover operation. Yes People. High School students as NCEA markers. Its possible. Pay a friend of a friend who knows identity of markers a “fiddy” and your guaranteed an A+, along with an ego-boosting comment-that you can understand!
Hilarity from wrongness anyway!
January 29th, 2007 at 12:29 am
OMG, Farrar’s critical of the NCEA… wow, you’d never guess he was engaged in anything political. What’s surprising is his deep analysis of the issues rather than that usual crap talkback style cliched shit…
January 29th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Poor little diddums. Somebody bad scribbled nasty comments on their failed [media studies - no surprise there huh?] exam scripts.
Mummies are very, very upset. Perhaps the little yoofs also need to harden up.
January 29th, 2007 at 10:11 am
The reality is that NZQA had nothing to do with it.
The results were processed by a mail handling company, who insert the results into envelopes and sort them for NZ Post.
Datamail have allready put there hand up to admit responsibility.
Sorry to pull the plug on the fun guys. But you have been ‘fisked’
January 29th, 2007 at 10:40 am
How stupid do you have to be, to think that anyone actually seriously thought NZQA themselves were responsible for the scribbled comments. It was obviously someone unauthorised. I was thinking a child of a marker maybe.
So Hayman’s great discovery that it really wasn’t NZQA is well about as great a discovery as the fact the moon landings were not really faked.
January 29th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
The state ALP government here has just backed away from “Outcomes Based Education” two weeks before school re-starts, forcing teacher to re-set the entire year’s work.
This was after the failed (and now demoted) Education Minister and the Premier (a former Education Minister himself) argued for a year that there was absolutely nothing wrong with a marking system which bore starling resemblance to the phantom NZQA ratings (except of course no child could be told they weren’t doing well, even if their exam mark was in the negatives), so the assessments basically went from “Well done” to “Very well done” – meaningless to employers as GPT points out.
I’ve never figured out what anyone gains from being told they did well when they didn’t. If the information is conveyed directly but with sensitivity, it can be used to intelligently plan for the future (I figured I was crap at maths in Year 10 and would be doomed to a life of being short-changed at the checkout, and was thus able to concentrate on learning the stuff I was better at. Like writing English proper) or to spur one on to greater effort.
January 29th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
People actually fail Media Studies?
January 29th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Peter, you don’t ‘fail’ anything these days. You just ‘achieve’ certain standards.
January 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Achieving the “failure” standard? Hurrah!
January 29th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
Time to give credit where it is due. After a messy start, NZQA have done a good job with NCEA in the past two years. Time for people to stop knocking the credibility of the qualifications that kids leave school with. They have worked hard for them and deserve better. Don’t forget NCEA is a system that was actually designed by National (implemented by Labour). Far be it for me to endorse Lockwood Smith on anything, but on this one he got it right…
January 30th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Rex, which State are you referring to? Presumably not NSW. Can you link to or otherwise expand on your post?