Introduction

Succeeding in NCEA is considerably easier than most people realise. Click here if you want to know why.

This web site guides your revision so as greatly improve your chances of success without much more work than is necessary. To revise efficiently for NCEA, your revision for each achievement standard should be in the following order:

1. Ensure that you have mastered all of the skills required for achievement.
2. Ensure that you have mastered all of the additional skills required for merit.
3. Further develop your excellence skills.

This web site contains diagnostic tests to find which of the achievement and merit skills you lack. After sitting those tests, you are referered to material to help you develop those missing skills. All of the material has been written specifically for NCEA. Consequently, you will not be wasting time on skills which will not be tested.

Private tuition can be very effective for NCEA provided that the tutor follows the guidelines given above and familarise themselves with the achievement standards concerned. The standards are obtainable from the NZQA web site http://www.nzqa.govt.nz and can be accessed easily by using the third selection bar on the home page of this web site. Click here if you want to find a tutor. This web site is intended, primarily, to assist students who do not have private tuition but is also useful for use in conjunction with tuition.

At this stage, the only material on this web site is for mathematics. Other subjects are not likely to be added in the near future. There is, however, one part of this web site which is useful for other subjects. It is the third selection bar on the home page which provides a quick and easy method of accessing relevant pages of the NZQA web site.

For externally assessed achievement standards for which there is no material on this web site, http://www.studyit.org.nz is useful. If you look at that web site you might wonder why you shouldn't just use that web site instead of this one. The two sites contain different types of material and, as a result, they are complementary, not alternatives to each other. For students who are looking for a free alternative to revision books, http://www.studyit.org.nz is a good resource.

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