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Principals fear many of the 15,000 senior secondary students who failed to reach the critical NCEA reading, writing and maths benchmark last year will give up on school or future study.
Figures provided to RNZ by NZQA showed nine percent of students in Year 13 and 15 percent of Year 12s had not achieved the literacy and numeracy co-requisite by the end of 2025.
That equated to about 5000 Year 13s and 10,000 Year 12s who would not receive any NCEA certificates because they had not yet met the requirement.
While most Year 12s would return to school for Year 13, principals told RNZ many of those who failed to meet the co-requisite we
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