“Exasperated maths teachers are drafting a letter of complaint after a major exam left baffled students facing questions they had little chance of answering.
For the second year running NCEA Level One maths has hit trouble with questions so difficult even the brightest students struggled.
Teachers say the exam confounded students with duplicate questions, unnecessarily verbose instructions and testing work not taught in the syllabus. It also omitted key topics from previous years.
NZQA has rejected the criticism and says it is “confident in the quality of the examination”.
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Level 1 NCEA maths exam gets fail mark from teachers