What You Need For NCEA

From 2024, you will need:

Literacy, Te Reo Matatini, Numeracy and Te Pāngarau

To be awarded NCEA, you need to achieve 10 credits in Literacy or Te Reo Matatini and 10 credits in Numeracy or Te Pāngarau to show you can use and understand language, as well as mathematics and statistics.

From 2024 - 2027, you can earn these credits through the new Literacy and Te Pāngarau standards, or from a list of other approved standards.

These credits are known as 'co-requisities' because you require them alongside your other credits for NCEA.

There will be many opportunities to earn these credits while you are at secondary school, and once you have gained them, you have met the Literacy, Te Reo Matatini, Numeracy and Te Pāngarau requirements for all three levels of NCEA.

If you met these requirements in 2023 or earlier, you do not need to attempt them again.

Watch a video on how NCEA works at: www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea-video

Information from NZQA's Guide to NCEA, February 2024