NCEA Credits Calculator

This calculator adds up your NCEA credits by achievement grade and checks whether you have enough to be awarded the level and to gain a Merit or Excellence endorsement, the two things students most want to track through the year. NCEA, the National Certificate of Educational Achievement, is built on credits earned from standards, and each level, One, Two or Three, requires eighty credits to be awarded. Every credit counts toward that total whether it is graded Achieved, Merit or Excellence, but the grade matters for endorsements: a certificate endorsement recognises consistently strong work and needs fifty credits at a single grade or higher, so fifty at Excellence earns an Excellence endorsement and fifty at Merit or above earns a Merit endorsement. You enter your credits at each of the three grades, and the calculator shows your total credits, whether you have reached the eighty needed to pass, and which endorsement, if any, you have qualified for. Use it to see where you stand and what you still need, for example how many more Merit or Excellence credits would tip you into an endorsement. Note that literacy and numeracy or co-requisite requirements apply separately and are not counted here, and Levels 2 and 3 can include some credits from the level below. A handy progress check for your NCEA year.

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80 credits awards the level; 50 at Merit or above gives a Merit endorsement, 50 at Excellence an Excellence endorsement. Literacy and numeracy apply separately. A progress guide.