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Thousands of NCEA papers were wrongly graded by officials in the last examination round, it has been reported.
Most of the mistakes were through marking errors or processing mistakes, The Dominion Post said.
The newspaper said thousands of students submitted their answer booklets for rechecking and about a third - 2033 - were "successful".
Affected pupils' grades, whose original marks were either wrong or had been tallied or processed incorrectly, were then marked up.
About 55 students also successfully challenged the top scholarship results.
Qualifications Authority chief executive Karen Poutasi said the number of rechecking requests was a tiny proportion of last year's 1.9 million exam papers.
NCEA was one of the world's few systems in which answer booklets were returned to candidates. The review process aimed to ensure transparency and fairness.
- NZPA
