Assessment and Certification Rules and Procedures
for Secondary Schools 2003
6.1.4 Special Assessment Conditions
(a) Candidates with permanent or long-term conditions or learning difficulties, which they believe will significantly impair their performance in specified external assessments - in particular written examinations - may apply to the Qualifications Authority to complete those external assessments under special assessment conditions (for example, a time allowance, modifications to question and answer booklets, or the use of an examination assistant such as a reader/writer). The Qualifications Authority will provide general guidelines for examination assistants when working with candidates.
(b) Applications are to be made before 30 June in the year of the external assessment on the Special Assessment Conditions application form, and in accordance with the Qualifications Authority's procedures for such applications.
Special assessment conditions may be approved or amended after August 30 but the cost of such special assessment conditions will be met by the school. The supervisors / examination assistants must be approved by the Qualifications Authority.
(c) In determining special assessment conditions applications, the Qualifications Authority will consider recommendations from the Principal's Nominee of the candidate's school. It will take note of any special ongoing support approved for the applicant during the teaching and assessment programme leading up to the year of assessment, as well as the special assessment conditions provided by the school for internal assessment. General Guidelines for Principal's Nominees provides further details.
(d) An application for special assessment conditions will not be granted for specific NCEA standards or relevant sections of UEBS subjects where there is an exclusion of assistance because the provisions of such assistance would compromise the validity of the external assessment.
This information and more is available on the
NCEA website.
