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20,000 students apply for emergency NCEA grade after quake

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Newstalk ZB Staff ,
Publish Date
Tue, 17 Jan 2017, 3:47PM
More than 20-thousand students have applied for an emergency NCEA exam grade because of disruption caused by the Kaikoura earthquake. (NZ Herald)
More than 20-thousand students have applied for an emergency NCEA exam grade because of disruption caused by the Kaikoura earthquake. (NZ Herald)

20,000 students apply for emergency NCEA grade after quake

Author
Newstalk ZB Staff ,
Publish Date
Tue, 17 Jan 2017, 3:47PM

More than 20-thousand students have applied for an emergency NCEA exam grade because of disruption caused by the Kaikoura earthquake.

The magnitude 7.8 quake struck in the early hours of the first major exam day of 2016, forcing thousands of people out of their beds.

Many pupils spent the night in evacuation centres or outside after fleeing to higher ground, and thousands of students in affected areas couldn't sit their scheduled tests.

Other schools were closed the following day due to severe flooding in the Hutt Valley.

NZQA figures released to the New Zealand Herald show 89 schools applied for emergency grades on behalf of 20-thousand students.

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