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Teachers agree the Qualifications Authority unwittingly made trial NCEA tests too difficult last year.
Documents show the Education Ministry warned the authority that the way the reading, writing and maths tests were designed made them harder for some students.
The assessments become a compulsory part of NCEA next year and teachers are worried because just 34 percent of students passed the trial writing test.
Here's our education correspondent, John Gerritsen.