The wait was over for thousands of teenagers yesterday as NCEA examination results were posted online.
Year 11, 12 and 13 students were able to access their long-awaited results from the 2010 end-of-year exams, while the more traditional mailed letters with official results will be sent on January 17.
Former Marlborough Girls' College student Francesca Dashfield, 17, said she lost sleep waiting for the results of her exams to come in and checked the New Zealand Qualifications Authority website every day, even though she knew when results would be available.
Francesca passed NCEA Level 3 and achieved enough credits to gain university entrance.
Her results were a lot better than she expected, she said.
"I was panicking ever since I finished [my exams]. Now I can sleep at night," she said.
Francesca was worried she would not get enough credits for university entrance, because she had already paid a deposit for the halls of residence for this year at Victoria University in Wellington where she will study towards an arts degree.
Marlborough Boys' College student Nick Andrews, 17, who is in year 13 this year, passed NCEA Level 2, but said his marks were worse than what he expected for the amount of study he put towards his final exams.
"I'm not impressed with the results. It's kind of a wake-up for this year," he said.
Marlborough Girls' College student Emily Sutton, 18, was slightly frustrated with her marks, because she was a few credits short of passing NCEA Level 3 with excellence. The marks were about what she expected and reflected the amount of study she did during the exam season.
Emily moves to Dunedin soon to study health science at the University of Otago.
Eighty-nine per cent of students at Queen Charlotte College who sat NCEA Level 1 passed, 96 per cent passed Level 2 and 66 per cent passed Level 3.
Principal Tom Parsons was confident of high pass rates for levels 1 and 2, and said it was "outstanding" for a decile-3 school.
The lower level-3 pass rate could be because of the deaths of Picton teenagers Alick Tapp, 17, and Michael Mealings, 17, earlier in the year after a ute carrying six teenagers crashed off the road at Koromiko, he said. Many students were absent during that time.
Marlborough Boys' College principal Wayne Hegarty hoped the NCEA Level 1 results had vastly improved since 2009, because the college put a strong emphasis on year-11 students.
He had seen results only for art, in which the college received nine excellences and 15 merits, and he predicted it would be the college's top performing area.
Marlborough Girls' College principal Karen Stewart was overseas and had not seen the results.
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