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Comment Re:Are they kidding? (Score 1) 421

Sure there may be some people that get their NCEA through picking up rubbish or working in a group or whatever, but those people aren't really the kind of people who are going to go on to need calculus in their lives. For them, learning to apply for a benefit might actually be useful. For the student with promise, it's peer pressure that's going to encourage them to take on the "hard" subjects like maths and the sciences. I was in the first year of NCEA (in each of the levels, and scholarship), and even given the option of getting your qualifications without learning anything, most people at my (low decile college) chose to go the traditional route of English, science and maths. Not to mention that the universities all require 6th form/Year 12 NCEA level 2 English, and a passing mark in calc and stats to do a Maths or Comp Sci major for instance, there is certainly no chance that tomorrow's NZer is going to be an uneducated git.

Despite the uproar about NCEA spurred on by the media, it's not nearly as bad as it's made out to be. It's certainly different from the old School Cert, but that alone doesn't make it bad.

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