UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

University Entrance Requirements from 2014

University Entrance (UE) will be the minimum requirement to go to a New Zealand university. To be awarded UE you will need:

• NCEA Level 3 plus
• Three subjects - at Level 3 or above, made up of 14 credits each, in three approved subjects plus
• Literacy - 10 credits at Level 2 or above, 5 credits in reading AND 5 credits in writing from specific standards plus
• Numeracy - 10 credits at Level 1 or above from specific achievement standards, or three specific numeracy unit standards

Once you have met the requirements for University Entrance it will appear on your Record of Achievement. This does not guarantee entry to the degree or subjects of your choice - in many cases, a higher level of achievement will be required. Many degrees at polytechnics, institutes of technology and private training enterprises also require this entry standard.

Approved subjects for university

Accounting	Agriculture and Horticulture	Biology
Business Studies	Calculus	Chemistry
Chinese	Classical Studies	Construction and Mechanical
Technologies	Cook Islands Maori Dance	Design (Practical Art)
Design and Visual Communication	Digital Technologies	Drama
Earth and Space Science	Economics	Education for Sustainability
English	French	Geography
German	Health Education	History
History of Art	Home Economics	Indonesian
Japanese	Korean	Latin
Mathematics	Media Studies	Music Studies
Making Music	Painting (Practical Art)	Photography (Practical Art)
Physical Education	Physics	Printmaking (Practical Art)
Processing Technologies	Religious Studies	Samoan
Science	Sculpture (Practical Art)	Spanish
Social Studies	Statistics	Technology
Te Reo Maori	Te Reo Rangatira

New Zealand Scholarship

Scholarship provides recognition and monetary reward to top students in their last year of schooling. Scholarship exams enable candidates to be assessed against challenging standards, and are demanding for the most able candidates in each subject.

Scholarship candidates are expected to demonstrate high-level critical thinking, abstraction and generalisation, and to integrate, synthesise and apply knowledge, skills, understanding and ideas to complex situations. See http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/qualifications-standards/a... for more information.