Steve Braunias is an award-winning New Zealand journalist, author, columnist and editor. OPINION Year 13 students across New Zealand are preparing for Level 3 NCEA exams, causing stress. Parents feel the pressure as they support their children through the final exams of school.
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” Year 13 students are stressing the hell out all across New Zealand right now as they sit at home and bend their heads to the awful task of studying for Level 3 NCEA exams. One timetable to rule them all; next week, health, economics, physics, scholarship chemistry and other three-hour torments; right now their academic future stands and dithers at the crossroads, no pressure; on Wednesday just gone, one of the days of reckoning commenced at 2pm for Level 3 biology. But will anyone think of the true suffering heroes – the parents?.