New Zealand: NCEA 'eliminates the competition young men enjoy'

Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2015-07-11 19:32

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'NCEA is better suited to girls, two boys' school principals believe.

An analysis of NCEA results since 2004 shows the pass rate for boys at NCEA level 1 has increased by 21.3 percentage points to 81.1 per cent last year.

But girls are still doing better. Last year, 87 per cent of girls passed level 1.

A gender gap also persists at levels 2 and 3, and boys are falling even further behind girls when it comes to merit and excellence endorsements at these levels.

Only in scholarship examinations, where the country's very top pupils are assessed, boys are doing equally as well, if not better than girls.'

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