NCEA results went online this morning and 140,000 teenagers are finding out how the pandemic affected their education last year.
Students can see how they performed in their end-of-year exams and whether they have achieved an NCEA certificate.
They will also learn how many extra "learning recognition credits" they received and whether they have merit or excellence endorsements for particular subjects or for their entire NCEA certificate.
The New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) said it could not yet provide any analysis of the results, but schools would be able to see how their own students had performed and make comparisons to previous years.
The "learning recognition credits" were awarded to students to mitigate the disadvantage caused by the national and Auckland lockdowns.
Auckland students were eligible for one of the extra credits for every four regular credits they earned up to a maximum of 16 at level 1, and 12 at levels two and three.
Students in the rest of the country were eligible for one learning recognition credits for every five up to a maximum of 10 credits and level 1, and eight credits at levels two and three.
The credits would provide Auckland students with up to 20 per cent of the credits required for an NCEA certificate, and up to 13 per cent for students elsewhere.
