A number of Achievement Standards and supporting materials have been updated for 2025 following the annual review and maintenance programme of the New Zealand Curriculum NCEA subjects across all three levels.
Most of the updates are very minor and have been made to improve clarity and interpretation. Some are due to the removal of submitted reports as a method of external assessment in NCEA Level 1 from 2025.
All affected Achievement Standards and supporting materials are now available for planning purposes on the NCEA Education website. Draft External Assessment Specifications for 2025 for those subjects with an external assessment method change are available on the NZQA website.
2025 NCEA and NZ Scholarship assessment specifications - NZQA
- Level 1 – Updated Ministry of Education materials are available on each subject page’s Learning tab as PDFs.
- Levels 2 and 3 – The updates are available as PDFs, organised by subject, on the NCEA Education website: Reviewed NZC Achievement Standards and assessment materials for use in 2025.
- A full list of changes for all levels and subjects can also be accessed from the “Recently Live” section on the NCEA Education website’s homepage.
- A video giving an overview of the review and maintenance programme is available on the NCEA Education website.
Teachers and other NCEA providers must ensure that the revised standards and supporting materials are used for assessment in 2025.
A number of Achievement Standards and supporting materials have been updated for 2025 following the annual review and maintenance programme of the New Zealand Curriculum NCEA subjects across all three levels.
Most of the updates are very minor and have been made to improve clarity and interpretation. Some are due to the removal of submitted reports as a method of external assessment in NCEA Level 1 from 2025.
All affected Achievement Standards and supporting materials are now available for planning purposes on the NCEA Education website. Draft External Assessment Specifications for 2025 for those subjects with an external assessment method change are available on the NZQA website.
2025 NCEA and NZ Scholarship assessment specifications - NZQA
- Level 1 – Updated Ministry of Education materials are available on each subject page’s Learning tab as PDFs.
- Levels 2 and 3 – The updates are available as PDFs, organised by subject, on the NCEA Education website: Reviewed NZC Achievement Standards and assessment materials for use in 2025.
- A full list of changes for all levels and subjects can also be accessed from the “Recently Live” section on the NCEA Education website’s homepage.
- A video giving an overview of the review and maintenance programme is available on the NCEA Education website.
Teachers and other NCEA providers must ensure that the revised standards and supporting materials are used for assessment in 2025.
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- Title: NZC NCEA Review and Maintenance Programme: 2025 updates
- Description: This video explains the review and maintenance process for NCEA, its purpose, and where the updated materials for 2025 can be found.
- Video Duration: 5 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/https://vimeo.com/1019213426
- Transcript: Kia ora tātou. This video will give an overview of the NCEA Review and Maintenance Programme and the updates to NCEA that will be implemented in 2025. It will cover what the Review and Maintenance Programme is
Kia ora tātou. This video will give an overview of the NCEA Review and Maintenance Programme and the updates to NCEA that will be implemented in 2025. It will cover what the Review and Maintenance Programme is, why we need it, and where you can find updates for your subject.
So what is the Review and Maintenance Programme? The Ministry of Education is the standard setting body for Achievement Standards so it has responsibility for reviewing and maintaining those achievement standards and their associated materials. RAMP is an ongoing business-as-usual process.
Ideally, a listed Achievement Standard should remain fit-for-purpose until its planned review date but there are instances where issues are identified with standards, or their associated supporting materials, which require adjustments to be made earlier. This is particularly the case when all products are new and have only just been implemented. The last review and maintenance of NCEA took place before the Review of Achievement Standards began.
The review and maintenance of NCEA ensures that Achievement Standards and their associated materials remain effective, relevant, and beneficial for all who use them at all levels of NCEA. For 2025, the review and maintenance updates include some Achievement Standards and supporting material from Level one as well as some current Level two and three subjects.
Supporting material means the documents that that are used to understand or assess an Achievement Standard. They can include the Unpacking the Standard page, Conditions of Assessment, Internal Assessment Activities and their assessment schedules, Course Outlines, the Subject Learning Outcomes, and External Assessment Specifications. Note that the External Assessment Specifications are written and published by NZQA.
It's really important to note that changes for clarity and interpretation means that the competencies being assessed in all the affected Standards are unchanged. Many of the listed changes are made to maintain alignment - that is, when an Achievement Standard is changed, all the affected supporting material must be updated to align.
The NCEA Education website is the place to view all the updated Achievement Standards and their supporting material to inform your 2025 planning except the External Assessment Specifications as noted earlier. It's important to note that the updated material must be used from 2025 onwards but not for any remaining 2024 assessments.
The updates are provided on the NCEA Education website as printable and downloadable PDFs. In January 2025, existing NCEA Level one material will be replaced on the NCEA Education website and Level two and Level three material will be updated on NZQA and the TKI websites as per current practice.
So until January 2025, all the updated Level one material can be found on the NCEA Education website, on the landing page for each affected subject. Where there are updates to Achievement Standards these are published in one PDF with all the affected supporting material in a separate PDF. These can also be downloaded as a single zip file.
When you open each PDF, there is a table on the first page that lists the changes that have been made. Each PDF file contains the full updated version of every affected document. In the supporting materials PDF, underneath the pictured summary there is also a Contents page for easy navigation.
Updated NCEA Levels two and three material can be found via a new menu item on the NCEA Education website. Under the 'NCEA Change Programme' tab, choose 'Reviewed Materials for 2025' to find similar PDFs of updated Level two and three material. Just a reminder that from January, the Level two and three content will replace the versions currently hosted on NZQA's website for Achievement Standards and TKI for supporting material. These PDFs will then be removed from NCEA Education.
To help teachers in understanding and planning for the 2025 updates to NCEA, the Ministry is providing online workshops for some affected subjects. The first round of workshops will take place later this term with another early in Term 1 2025, if needed.
These workshops will be subject-specific and hosted by the NCEA Implementation Facilitators. The updates for each subject will be discussed in detail. The sessions will be recorded. More information about these workshops will be shared soon. As always, keep an eye on the NCEA Education website and the Te Poutāhū newsletter for updates. Mā te wā.
Te reo Māori transcript: Hōtaka Arotake me te Tautiaki NCEA NZC: ngā whakahōu 2025
Kia ora tātou. Mā tēnei ataata e whakarato tētahi tirohanga whānui o te Hōtaka Arotake me te Tautiaki me ngā whakahōu ki te NCEA ka whakatinanatia ā te 2025. Ka whakamārama nei he aha te Hōtaka Arotake me te Tautiaki, te take e hiahiatia ana, ā, ki hea kitea ai ngā whakahōu mō tō marau.
00:18
Nā reira, he aha tēnei mea te Hōtaka Arotake me te Tautiaki? Ko te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga te rōpū whakatau mō ngā Paerewa Paetae, nā reira kei te Tāhuhu anō te kawenga ki te arotake me te tautiaki i aua paerewa paetae me ngā rauemi e pātahi ana. He tukanga haere tonu noa taua Hōtaka Arotake me te Tautiaki, arā te RAMP.
00:37
Ko te mea pai, me noho tino hāngai tonu tētahi Paerewa Paetae kua rārangitia tae noa ki te rā e whakamaheretia ai te arotake, engari i ētahi wā ka maiea ake pea he take e pā ana ki ngā paerewa, ki ngā rauemi tautoko rānei mō aua paerewa, me whakatika i mua i te wā ka whakaritea mō te arotake. Tērā tonu pea ka pērā ina hou katoa ngā hua, ā, kātahi tonu ka whakatinanatia. I tū tērā arotake me te tautiaki tōmua o te NCEA i mua i te tīmatanga o te Arotake i ngā Paerewa Paetae.
Ka whakarite te arotake me te tautiaki i te NCEA kia noho whaitake, hāngai, me te whaihua ngā Paerewa Paetae me ngā rauemi pātahi ki te katoa o te hunga whakamahi i ngā taumata NCEA katoa.
01:17
Mō te 2025, ka whai wāhi ētahi Paerewa Paetae me ngā rauemi tautoko o te Taumata tuatahi me ētahi marau kei ngā Taumata tuarua me te tuatoru ki te arotake me ngā whakahōu tautiaki.
Ko ngā rauemi tautoko ko ērā tuhinga ka whakamahia kia mārama ai te tangata ki te Paerewa Paetae, ki te aromatawai rānei i taua paerewa. Kei roto pea te whārangi Wewete i te Paerewa, Ngā Here Aromatawai, ngā Ngohe Aromatawai ā-Roto me ngā hōtaka aromatawai e hāngai ana, Ngā Whakarāpopotonga Akoranga, ngā Putanga Ako Marau, me ngā Whakaritenga Aromatawai ā-Waho. Me mōhio, ka tuhia, ka whakaputaina hoki ngā Whakaritenga Aromatawai ā-Waho e NZQA.
He mea tino nui kia mōhio e kore e panoni ngā āheitanga e aromatawaia ana mā ngā panoni mō te pūrangiaho me te whakamāori i ngā Paerewa ka pāngia. Mahia ai te nui o ngā panoni kua rārangitia hei whakarite i te hāngai tonutanga – arā, hei te huringa o tētahi Paerewa Paetae, me whakahōu ngā rauemi tautoko kia hāngai tonu.
02:16
Ko te paetukutuku Mātauranga NCEA te wāhi hei tirotiro i ngā Paerewa Paetae whakahōu me ngā rauemi tautoko hāngai, kia whai mōhio ai ō mahi whakamahere mo te 2025, hāunga Ngā Whakaritenga Aromatawai ā-Waho i kōrerotia ai i mua. Me mōhio anō hoki me mātua whakamahi ngā rauemi kua whakahōutia atu i te 2025 ki tua, engari kaua mō ērā aromatawai 2024 e toe tonu ana.
E whakaratohia ana ngā whakahōu i te paetukutuku NCEA hei PDF ka taea te tā me te tikiake. Ā te Kohitātea, ka whakakapia ngā rauemi Taumata tuatahi NCEA katoa i te paetukutuku Mātauranga NCEA, ā, ka whakahōutia noatia ngā rauemi Taumata tuarua me te tuatoru i ngā paetukutuku NZQA me TKI.
03:00
Nā reira, tae atu ki te Kohitātea 2025, ka kitea ngā rauemi Taumata tuatahi kua whakahōutia i te paetukutuku Mātauranga NCEA, i te whārangi ūnga mō ia marau e pāngia ana. Mēnā kua oti ētahi Paerewa Paetae te whakahōu, ka whakaputaina ērā hei PDF kotahi me ngā rauemi tautoko katoa hei PDF motuhake. Ka taea hoki ēnei te tikiake hei kōnae kōpeke kotahi.
03:25
Hei te whakatuwheratanga o ia PDF, ka kitea he tūtohi i te whārangi tuatahi e rārangitia ai ngā huringa kua oti. Kei tēnā, kei tēnā kōnae PDF te putanga kua oti te whakahōu o ia tuhinga kua pāngia. Kei roto i te PDF whai rauemi tautoko, kei raro i te pikitia whakarāpopoto, he whārangi Ihirangi hei whakarite kia māmā noa te whakatere.
03:45
Ka kitea ngā rauemi Taumata NCEA tuarua me te tuatoru kua whakahōutia i tētahi tūemi tahua hōu i te paetukutuku Mātauranga NCEA. I raro i te ripa 'Hōtaka Panoni NCEA' kōwhiria 'Ngā Rauemi Kua Arotakea mō te 2025' kia kite i ngā PDF rite o ngā rauemei Taumata tuarua me te tuatoru kua whakahōutia. He whakamaharatanga tēnei, atu i te Kohitātea ka whakakapia ngā putanga o nāianei e taurimatia ana i te paetukutuku a NZQA mō ngā Paerewa Paetae ngā ihirangi Taumata tuarua me te tuatoru me TKI mō ngā rauemi tautoko e ngā ihirangi Taumata tuarua me te tuatoru. Ā taua wā ka tangohia ēnei PDF i te paetukutuku Mātauranga NCEA.
04:22
Hei āwhina i te mārama haere o ngā kaiako ki ngā whakahōu 2025 ki te NCEA me ā rātou mahi whakamahere, ka whakatūria e Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga ētahi awheawhe mō ētahi o ngā marau ka pāngia. Ka tū ngā awheawhe hou tuatahi ā muri atu i tēnei kaupeka tau, me ētahi anō i te pane o te Kaupeka 1 2025 ki te hiahiatia.
Ka aro aua awheawhe ki ētahi mahara tauwhāiti, ā, ka whakahaeretia e ngā Kaihuawaere Whakatinana NCEA. Ka matapaki āmikihia ngā whakahōu mō tēnā, mō tēnā marau. Ka hopukina ngā hui. Ā kō ake nei ka tukuna he mōhiohio anō mō aua awheawhe. Me tirotiro haere tonu i te paetukutuku Mātauranga NCEA me te pānui Te Poutāhū mō ngā whakahōu. Mā te wā.
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