A trial test of tougher new NCEA standards shows some teens will fail because they don't know how many minutes there are in an hour and don't use capital letters and full stops
The literacy and numeracy standards become a must-pass part of the qualification next year.
Teachers who marked a pilot test are worried by the number of students who think an hour is a hundred minutes and say many made basic grammatical and spelling mistakes.
Here's education correspondent John Gerritsen.
