Exams optional for some Auckland schools

Some of the city’s schools are telling students it’s up to them whether they sit their exams because they can get an unexpected event grade instead. Others are insisting students turn up, RNZ reveals. The Qualifications Authority has told schools exams should not be seen as optional, but Auckland principals said their students had been under a lot of stress from the city’s long lockdown and forcing them to sit exams would be unreasonable.