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Year 9 and Year 10
These Junior Exams are for summative assessment of the new curriculum aligned to the new reporting requirements for Year 9 and Year 10.
They will be available from July 27th (mid Term 3) for use in Term 4.
A year level Junior Pack will cover the spread of the (new) curriculum, with questions a mix of skills and applications.
We include marking schemes and suggested judgement criteria for describing students as Emerging/Developing/Consolidating/Proficient/Exceeding. It will enable reporting by individual strand or overall.
Sample questions for the Year 10 Number strand are below.
A Junior Pack will not include separate revision resources of questions and answers, as we see these tests as largely summative for an end-of-year process.
Year 7 and Year 8
Junior Packs for Intermediate years might be offered in future years, depending on demand.
Cost
The Junior Packs will be offered for $70 each.
Structure
The Year 10 exam will be split into six strands. It can easily be broken into parts to accommodate shorter assessment windows (if you don't have a 2-hour exam time to use) as follows.
One 120 minute
Number (30 minutes)
Probability (10 minutes)
Statistics (20 minutes)
Measurement (20 minutes)
Geometry (10 minutes)
Algebra (30 minutes)
Two 60 minutes
1st session
Number (30 minutes)
Probability (10 minutes)
Statistics (20 minutes)
2nd session
Measurement (20 minutes)
Geometry (10 minutes)
Algebra (30 minutes)
Three 40 minutes
1st session
Number (30 minutes)
Probability (10 minutes)
2nd session
Statistics (20 minutes)
Measurement (20 minutes)
3rd session
Geometry (10 minutes)
Algebra (30 minutes)
Four 30 minutes
1st session
Number (30 minutes)
2nd session
Probability (10 minutes)
Statistics (20 minutes)
3rd session
Measurement (20 minutes)
Geometry (10 minutes)
4th session
Algebra (30 minutes)
Sample
This sample contains questions for Year 10 Number from the new Phase 4 curriculum.
There will also be a resource sheet, mostly for the Measurement and Geomtry strands, similar to the resource for NCEA Level 1 91947 (1.4 Demonstrate Mathematical Reasoning).
k-Y10-exam-sample.pdfk-Y10-exam-ans-sample.pdfIf your school also wants to report using NCEA-style Achieved/Merit/Excellence, the 2-mark questions could be used as Merit(r) and 3-mark questions as Excellence(t).
Progress Descriptors
We have suggested percentages that could be used to roughly align a mark in a section, and a mark overall, with the progress descriptors. These are a suggested starting point, and schools are not bound to these.
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