9 Nov 2017

NCEA exams begin, students struggle to turn phones off

From Morning Report, 7:30 am on 9 November 2017

Today marks the beginning of three-and-a-half weeks of NCEA and Scholarship exams for more than 146-thousand school students. The exams start on Thursday with Scholarship Drama, with further exams in Chinese, Japanese, Drama and Te Reo Rangatira on Thursday afternoon. Exams are often an anxious time for teenagers and RNZ education correspondent John Gerritsen has been asking some how they are coping.