Please click on the links below to view this year’s NCEA Exam Timetable, Assessment Guidelines and Exam Tutorials.
You might also find useful exam information on the NZQA website.

SGHS Evidence Setting Exams (Dates for 2023 to be confirmed)

Evidence Examinations will be occurring at SGHS. It is essential that all students sit these Evidence Exams as they provide vital data on student achievement and progress. If we were to have an unexpected event during the NZQA exams in November these are the grades that your child’s results will be based upon. Thus, making the evidence gathered in these school exams essential for establishing grades for our students.

If your child is unwell during the Evidence Exam time and cannot attend please contact Lee Pirini; (Assistant Principal in charge of Assessment) to work out the next steps.  [email protected]

Cambridge Practice Exams:

Students will attend normal classes when not sitting an examination.

• Dates to be confirmed.

NCEA Evidence Exams (Year 11, 12 and 13):
Dates to be confirmed.

• Morning exams start at 8.50 am / Afternoon exams start at 1 pm.
• Senior students in Years 12 / 13 and some Year 11 students, have study leave during this time and are only required to be at school for their scheduled examinations.
• The library will be available for Seniors to study in.
• A copy of the exam timetable is available on our website. Click HERE to view.

For ALL examinations:

Students are too be at school at least 20 minutes prior to the start of the exam.

By 8.30 am for morning exams, and 12.40 pm for afternoon exams. Students should be in the following places:

• The Common Room (NCEA Evidence Setting Exam students)
• Performance on Tweed (Cambridge Exam students)
• If you have special assessment conditions, please meet outside Mrs Browning’s office. Bring your own laptop if you have indicated you are going to use a computer.

Exam materials:

Students are responsible for taking the correct equipment to the exam and making sure that it is working.

Students can bring:

• Pens (black and blue colours are permitted) pencils and an eraser
• An approved calculator for subjects where a calculator has been used during the year.
• A fully charged laptop for Digital Exams
• All equipment is to be placed in a clear plastic bag.

Emergency evacuation during exam time (if this was to occur)

As a precaution, students are allowed to bring items for an emergency evacuation into the examination room in a clear, sealable plastic bag. This pack must stay under the chair and not be touched or opened without the permission of the supervisor.
Contents could include a mobile phone (switched off) or other electronic device, keys, money, bus pass and medicines.