What is the grade system in new zeland?

Question

Like what grade are you in to start with because their grades are like yr.14 it's weird!

Answer 1

Well it's different from Australia and other countries. Ages as of the start of the year which is usually end of Jan, start of Feb.

Kindy is 3years-5years

The you start primary school. Legally you don't have to start until you're 6 but most people start at 5.

PRIMARY SCHOOL

5year old= year 1[Old system= J1]
6year old= year 2 [Old system= J2]
7years old= year 3 [Old system= Standard 1]
8years old= year 4 [Old system= Standard 2]
9years old= year 5 [Old system= Standard 3]
10years old= year 6 [Old system= Standard 4]

Some primary schools have two more years after. This are mostly country schools and lower socio economic schools.

11years old= year 7 [Old system= Form 1]
12years old= year 8 [Old system= Form 2]

INTERMEDIATE

Some students choose to go to a special school called intermediate for 2 years.

11years old= year 7 [Old system= Form 1]
12years old= year 8 [Old system= Form 2]

COLLEGE

Not college like in America, this is like high school except it mixes in those 2 years that you can either take at your primary school or intermediate or at college.

11years old= year 7 [Old system= Form 1]
12years old= year 8 [Old system= Form 2]
13years old= year 9 [Old system= Form 3]
14years old= year 10 [Old system= Form 4]
15years old= year 11 [Old system= Form 5]
16years old= year 12 [Old system= Form 6]
17years old= year 13 [Old system= Form 7]

HIGH SCHOOL

Same as college but with out the intermediate years.

13years old= year 9 [Old system= Form 3]
14years old= year 10 [Old system= Form 4]
15years old= year 11 [Old system= Form 5]
16years old= year 12 [Old system= Form 6]
17years old= year 13 [Old system= Form 7]

Then from there you can go to University.

We don't have year 14, we have year 13 whereas Australia only goes up to year 12. That is because Australians count year 1 as Kinder.

From year 11 your education actually starts to count.

In year 11/5th form you start what is called NCEA at level 1. During the year you will be given assessments from each class where you can earn credits. Each class offers about 24 credits. For example if you present a speech in English you will receive 3 (i think) credits at level 1 in English. You need 80 credits to pass level 1.

You don't receive a percentage. You can pass (or not pass) each assessment at these different levels.

Not attempted
Not Achieved
Achieved
Merit
Excellence

Any mark above the achieved point will give you those credits. (You don't earn more credits for getting a merit or an excellence than you would getting an achieved)

At 5th form you must take a minimum of 6 subjects and English Maths and Science is compulsory.

The assessments during the year are called internals, we also have exams that are called externals.

After that year (even if you fail) you carry on to level 2 which is year 12/6th form. 20 credits carry carry on to level 2 from level 1 so this year you only need 60 credits. English is compulsory, nothing else is.

Level 3 is the last year of high school. At this stage people aren't really worried about getting level 3, mostly UE which is 14 credits from 2 subjects and another lot of 14 from no more than 2 subjects combined. Plus you need 8 maths level 1 or high credits and 8 English level 2 or high credits. Then you can take almost any course at University anywhere in New Zealand.


Sorry this is kind of long

Answer 2

New Zealand has recently moved towards a system where school levels are identified by the year number.

Most NZ schools cater for either primary, intermediate or secondary school students:

Years 1–6: Primary School (Ages 5–11)
Years 7–8: Intermediate School (Ages 11–13)
Years 9–13: Secondary School (Ages 13–18)
However, some schools cater for students across two or more of these groups. These are rarer than schools which teach the groups above. Area schools are generally found in rural areas, where there are not enough students to run three separate schools productively. A list of these types of schools, and the years they cater for, is below.

Years 1–8: Full Primary School (Ages 5–13)
Years 7–10: Middle School (Ages 11–14)
Years 7–13: Intermediate/Secondary School (Ages 11–18)

Years 1–13: Area schools (Ages 5–18)
Preschool – Year 13: The Correspondence School (Preschool – Age 18)

Answer 3

you start up out generally at 4 or 5 in Kindergarten, that's the 1st actual year. then you definitely bypass grades one million-12 (at 6, you're in first, 7 in 2d, and so on.). by the time you graduate from intense college (generally grades 9-12), you're 17-18 years old. we don't have something such as the united kingdom's A-tiers so a ways as i'm conscious; a minimum of no longer interior the U. S. the place i'm. wish this facilitates rather :)

Answer 4

Unsure of their grade system, but the hardest five years of a New Zealanders life is kindergarten

Answer 5

I can tell you the correct grade for Australia but as nz is thousands of kl from Australia and we are two different country's cant help you there.

Answer 6

Australian's have a different school system to New Zealenders - ask them