Teenagers around the country are trying to turn off their phones, stay off Instagram and study for NCEA and Scholarship exams which begin on Friday.
The three-and-a-half week exam season starts this morning with level two physics, level three business studies and scholarhip calculus.T
he Qualifications Authority is expecting to mark more than a million exam booklets as well as 48,000 online exam entries from this year's exams.
RNZ's education correspondent is John Gerritsen.