For NCEA students, they come in the form of a certificate on special paper which is posted to your home in mid January. They detail the various credits you have attempted in the previous year, along with the achievement grades (merit, excellence etc) gained. This certificate may be up to 2 pages long.
If you gained Level 2 or 3 credits before this year, then you will need to find this certificate and get verified copies of it, as in the instructions in the enrolment pack, and post these to the university. You will need also to get verified copies of your 2011 results which will arrive in January, and post these in too. The university will have access to your Level 3 results but needs to see the Level 2 results as well.
For Cambridge students, the official results certificate is posted to your home, or sometimes to your school, in late January or early February. If you have AS or A level results from previous years, you must send in verified copies of these as in the instructions in the enrolment pack. However the university will have access to your 2011 results, so you do not need to send those.
How is the NCEA grade average calculated?
There are 24 achievement credits available in most NCEA courses. Your grade average for
that course is calculated as a percentage by this formula:
[4(number of credits at excellence) + 3(number of credits at merit) + 2(number of credits at achieved)]*100/96 to give the average grade as a
percentage. Where fewer than 24 have been attempted, note the number attempted, and divide instead by 4 times that number.
Discretionary Entry form
There may be a problem finding this form on Student Services Online. If you cannot find it, click here to download a copy